GeForce GTX 970M SLI and Quadro P520 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 970M SLI

Quadro P520

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

-

GP108

Market segment

Laptop

Mobile workstation

Release date

October 2014

May 2019

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1038 MHz

1493 MHz

Core clock speed

924 MHz

1303 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

2x 5200 Million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

384

Power consumption (TDP)

162 Watt

18 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

35.83

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x 6 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

2x 192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

48.06 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

12_1

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

6.1

OpenCL

-

1.2

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.4

Vulkan

-

1.2.131

Optimus

+

-