Quadro M5000 and GeForce GTX 970M SLI - video card comparison
Quadro M5000
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
GM204
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Market segment
Workstation
Laptop
Release date
June 2015
October 2014
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
1038 MHz
Core clock speed
861 MHz
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,252 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
2x 5200 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
162 Watt
Texture fill rate
132.9
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Memory type
256 Bit
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2x 6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
2x 192 Bit
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 211 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DVI-I DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo
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Number of simultaneous displays
4
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DirectX
12
12_1
CUDA
5.2
+
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.5
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Shader Model
5
-
Vulkan
+
-
3D Vision Pro
+
-
ECC (Error Correcting Code)
+
-
High-Performance Video I/O6
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
Multi-display synchronization
Quadro Sync
-
nView Desktop Management
+
-
Optimus
-
+