Arctic Sound-M vs GeForce GTX 970M SLI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking227not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.49no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameno dataArctic Sound
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 October 2014 (10 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores25608192
Core clock speed924 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1038 MHzno data
Number of transistors2x 5200 Million8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)162 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rateno data230.4
Floating-point processing powerno data14.75 TFLOPS
ROPsno data128
TMUsno data256

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount2x 6 GB16 GB
Memory bus width2x 192 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.23 TB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 162 Watt 500 Watt

GTX 970M SLI has 208.6% lower power consumption.

Arctic Sound-M, on the other hand, has a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 970M SLI and Arctic Sound-M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 970M SLI is a notebook card while Arctic Sound-M is a workstation one.


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