GeForce GTX 970 and Tegra X1 GPU - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970
Tegra X1 GPU
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
GM204
GM20B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
January 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
1000 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
20 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
2,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
256
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
15 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
16.00
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
System Shared
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)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
5.3
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-