GeForce GTX 970M SLI and GeForce GTX 460M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
GeForce GTX 460M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
-
N11E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
September 2010
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
-
Core clock speed
924 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
518.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
192
Power consumption (TDP)
162 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
16.1 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 6 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
2x 192 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
60.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12_1
12 API with Feature Level 12.1
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
Optimus
+
-