Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh vs GeForce 9700M GT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1217not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.83no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameG96TU104B
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date29 July 2008 (16 years ago)8 June 2020 (4 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 cores323072
Core clock speed625 MHz1035 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors314 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate10.00296.6
Floating-point processing power0.0992 TFLOPS9.492 TFLOPS
Gigaflops148no data
ROPs864
TMUs16192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 3.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s448.0 GB/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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.140
CUDA+7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 July 2008 8 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 110 Watt

9700M GT has 144.4% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 441.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9700M GT and Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9700M GT is a notebook graphics card while Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
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