GeForce GTX 970 and GeForce GT 610 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GT 610
GeForce GTX 970
9932
GeForce GT 610
317
GeForce GTX 970
GeForce GT 610
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GM204
GF119
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
April 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
810 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
48
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
155.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
48
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
29 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
102 °C
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
6.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1024 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI, VGA
Multi monitor support
4 displays
+
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-