GeForce GTX 970M SLI and HD Graphics 4600 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
HD Graphics 4600
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Gen. 7.5 Haswell (2012−2013)
GPU code name
-
Haswell GT2
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
June 2013
Interface
-
PCIe 1.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
1350 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
200 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
50 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
20
Power consumption (TDP)
162 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
27.00
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2x 6 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
2x 192 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
System Shared
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12_1
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.3
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.80
Optimus
+
-
Quick Sync
-
+