GeForce GTX 880M SLI and GeForce GTX 970M - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 880M SLI

GeForce GTX 970M

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

N15E-GX-A2

GM204

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

March 2014

October 2014

Bus support

-

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

-

MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

SLI options

+

+

Boost clock speed

-

1038 MHz

Core clock speed

954 MHz

924 MHz

CUDA cores

-

1280

Floating-point performance

-

2,657 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2x 3540 Million

5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

206 Watt

unknown

Texture fill rate

-

83.04

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

120 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

VGA аnalog display support

-

+

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support

-

+

HDMI

-

+

G-SYNC support

-

+

DirectX

12 (FL 11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

+

OpenCL

-

1.1

OpenGL

-

4.5

Shader Model

-

6.4

Vulkan

-

1.1.126

Ansel

-

+

BatteryBoost

-

+

GameStream

-

+

GameWorks

-

+

GeForce ShadowPlay

-

+

GPU Boost

-

2.0

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder

-

+

Optimus

+

+