GeForce GTX 970M and Neo - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 970M

Neo

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

GM204

Neo

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

October 2014

-

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

-

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

-

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1038 MHz

-

Core clock speed

924 MHz

-

CUDA cores

1280

-

Floating-point performance

2,657 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

unknown

-

Texture fill rate

83.04

-

Memory type

GDDR5

-

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

-

Memory bus width

192 Bit

-

Memory clock speed

2500 MHz

-

Memory bandwidth

120 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

-

VGA аnalog display support

+

-

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.0

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.1

Ansel

+

-

BatteryBoost

+

-

GameStream

+

-

GameWorks

+

-

GeForce ShadowPlay

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder

+

-

Optimus

+

-