NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Tesla M40

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GM204 GM200
GPU variant GM204-200-A1 GM200-895-A1
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 5,200 million 8,000 million
Die size 398 mm² 601 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 19th, 2014 Nov 10th, 2015
Generation GeForce 900 Tesla
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 329 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 111 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 700
Successor GeForce 10

Clocks

Base clock 1050 MHz 948 MHz
Boost clock 1178 MHz 1112 MHz
Memory clock 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective 1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 12 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 384 bit
Bandwidth 224.4 GB/s 288.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1664 3072
TMUs 104 192
ROPs 56 96
SMM count 13 24
Cache L1 48 KB (per SMM) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 2 MB 3 MB

Performance

Pixel rate 65.97 GPixel/s 106.8 GPixel/s
Texture rate 122.5 GTexel/s 213.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.920 TFLOPS 6.832 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 122.5 GFLOPS (1:32) 213.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches
TDP 148 W 250 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 600 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board number PG401 PG600 SKU 202

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.1 1.1
CUDA 5.2 5.2
Shader model 6.4 6.4

Other Features

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