NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 924 MHz vs 775 MHz
3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 81 Watt vs 100 Watt
2x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Launch date	7 October 2014 vs 6 January 2011
Core clock speed	924 MHz vs 775 MHz
Pipelines	1280 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	81 Watt vs 100 Watt
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI
PassMark - G3D Mark	5691
PassMark - G2D Mark	378
Geekbench - OpenCL	19001
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	59.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1113.788
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.157
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	39.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	81.909
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	8546
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8546
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3342
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	472

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M SLI
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	Fermi
Code name	GM204	N12E-GS
Launch date	7 October 2014	6 January 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,560.89
Place in performance rating	568	not rated
Price now	$1,899
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	3.99
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz
Core clock speed	924 MHz	775 MHz
CUDA cores	1280
Floating-point performance	2,657 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1280	384
Texture fill rate	83.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	81 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	large	large
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	120 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI