GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA A2
CORE STATE
GA107
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1770 MHz
TDP
60 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 970M
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1038 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
A2
GTX 970M
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
1,280
0.0%
Shaders
1,280
1,280
0.0%
TMUs
40
80
+100.0%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
SM Count
10
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1440 MHz
924 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1038 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
12.5 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
16 GB
6 GB
VRAM (MB)
16,384
6,144
-62.5%
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
200.1 GB/s
120.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
49.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
4.531 TFLOPS
2.657 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
70.80 GFLOPS (1:64)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
4.531 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
AI/RT
RT Cores
10
—
Tensor Cores
40
—
Power
TDP
60 W
—
TDP (W)
60
—
Suggested PSU
250 W
—
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
GA107
GM204
Generation
Workstation Ampere
(Ax000)
GeForce 900M
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8,700 million
5,200 million
Die Size
200 mm²
398 mm²
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Density
43.5M / mm²
13.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
MXM Module
Outputs
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Quadro Turing
GeForce 800M
Successor
Workstation Ada
GeForce 10 Mobile