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GeForce GTX 970 and HD Graphics 2000 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs HD Graphics 2000

GeForce GTX 970
9932
HD Graphics 2000
219

GeForce GTX 970

HD Graphics 2000


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)

GPU code name
GM204
Sandy Bridge

Market segment
Desktop
Laptop

Release date
September 2014
February 2011

Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-

Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
-

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1350 MHz

Core clock speed
1050 MHz
850/1100 MHz

CUDA cores
1664
-

Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
10.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
32 nm

Number of transistors
5,200 million
189 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
6

Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
unknown

Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-

Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
8.100

Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
System Shared

Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit

Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
System Shared

Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
-

Shared memory
-
+

Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs

Multi monitor support
4 displays
-

HDMI
+
-

HDCP
+
-

Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-

G-SYNC support
+
-

Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-

DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.1 (10_1)

CUDA
+
-

OpenCL
1.2
N/A

OpenGL
4.4
3.1

Shader Model
6.4
4.1

Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A

GameStream
+
-

GameWorks
+
-

GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-

GPU Boost
2.0
-