Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Sep 2014 Jan 2016
Generation GeForce 900 GeForce 900
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1050 MHz 937 MHz
Boost Clock 1178 MHz 1203 MHz
Memory Clock 1753 MHz 1253 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 128bit
Bandwidth 224.4GB/s 80.19GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 1664 1024
TMUs 104 64
ROPs 56 32
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache 2 MB 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 65.97 GPixel/s 38.50 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 122.5 GTexel/s 76.99 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.920 TFLOPS 2.464 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 122.5 GFLOPS 76.99 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM204 GM206S
GPU Variant GM204-200-A1 950 OEM
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.2 billion 2.94 billion
Die Size 398 mm² 228 mm²
Board Design
TDP 148W Unknown
Suggested PSU 300 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
CUDA 5.2 5.2
Shader Model 6.4 6.7