GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile and GeForce GTX 970M SLI - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104 SLI
-
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
August 2016
October 2014
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
1038 MHz
Core clock speed
1556 MHz
924 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
14400 Million
2x 5200 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
5120
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
-
162 Watt
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
2x 6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
2x 192 Bit
Memory clock speed
10000 MHz
5000 MHz
Shared memory
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12_1
12_1
CUDA
+
+
Vulkan
+
-
Optimus
-
+
VR Ready
+
-