GeForce GTX 970M SLI and GeForce GTX 670M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
GeForce GTX 670M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
-
N13E-GS1-LP
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
March 2012
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
-
MXM-B (3.0)
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
-
Core clock speed
924 MHz
598 MHz
CUDA cores
-
336
Floating-point performance
-
803.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
336
Power consumption (TDP)
162 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
33.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 6 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
2x 192 Bit
192bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
72.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
Up to 2048x1536
DirectX
12_1
12 API
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
Optimus
+
+