GeForce GTX 970M SLI and GeForce GTX 880M SLI - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
GeForce GTX 880M SLI
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
-
N15E-GX-A2
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
March 2014
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
-
Core clock speed
924 MHz
954 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
2x 3540 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
3072
Power consumption (TDP)
162 Watt
206 Watt
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 6 GB
2x 8 GB
Memory bus width
2x 192 Bit
2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
5000 MHz
Shared memory
-
-
DirectX
12_1
12 (FL 11_0)
CUDA
+
+
Optimus
+
+