GeForce GTX 970M SLI and GeForce GTX 960M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
GeForce GTX 960M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
-
N16P-GX
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
March 2015
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
-
MXM-B (3.0)
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
1202 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
1096 MHz
CUDA cores
-
640
Floating-point performance
-
1,505 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
640
Power consumption (TDP)
162 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
47.04
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
2x 192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
80 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
-
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12_1
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
Ansel
-
+
BatteryBoost
-
+
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
+
+