GeForce GTX 970M SLI and GeForce 7900 GX2 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 970M SLI

GeForce 7900 GX2

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

-

G71

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

October 2014

April 2006

Interface

-

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

2x 6-pin

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1038 MHz

-

Core clock speed

924 MHz

500 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

2x 5200 Million

278 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

-

Power consumption (TDP)

162 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

-

12.00

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2x 6 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

2x 192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

38.4 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12_1

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

-

N/A

OpenGL

-

2.1

Shader Model

-

3.0

Vulkan

-

N/A

Optimus

+

-