| Attribute | GeForce GTX 970 × | GeForce GTX 870M × |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | ||
| Release year (year) | 2014 | 2014 |
| GPU brand | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| GPU name | GM204 | GK104 |
| Market | Desktop | Laptop |
| Clock speed (MHz) | 1,050 | 941 |
| Turbo clock speed (MHz) | 1,178 | 967 |
| Is dual GPU | - | - |
| Model | GeForce GTX 970 | GeForce GTX 870M |
| Memory | ||
| Memory (MB) | 4,096 | 3,072 |
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 224.4 | 120 |
| Memory bus (bit) | 256 | 192 |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory clock speed (MHz) | 1,753 | 1,250 |
| Effective memory clock speed (MHz) | 7,012 | 5,000 |
| Noise and power | ||
| TDP (W) | 148 | 100 |
| Raw performance | ||
| Pixel rate (GPixel/s) | 58.8 | 26.35 |
| Render output processors | 56 | 24 |
| Texture mapping units | 104 | 112 |
| Shading units | 1,664 | 1,344 |
| Floating-point performance (GFLOPS) | 3,494 | 2,529 |
| Texture rate (GTexel/s) | 109.2 | 105.4 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Unigine: Heaven 4.0 | 60 | - |
| Battlefield 4 | - | 36.6 |
| Face detection (mPixels/s) | 105.04 | 34.84 |
| T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) | 3358.38 | 3360.2 |
| Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) | 3715.92 | 3717.8 |
| Bitcoin mining (mHash/s) | 212.39 | 81.75 |
| Sky Diver Factor | 428.4 | 295.59 |
| Thief | 75 | 31.9 |
| Fire Strike Factor | 72.7 | 35.66 |