GeForce GTX 970 and Quadro M500M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Quadro M500M
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Quadro M500M
1198
GeForce GTX 970
Quadro M500M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
GM204
GM108
Market segment
Desktop
Mobile workstation
Release date
September 2014
December 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
1029 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
863.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
384
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
30 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
17.98
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
4004 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
14.4 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)
12
CUDA
+
5.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.1.126
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
nView Display Management
-
+
Optimus
-
+