GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GB10

CORE STATE GB20B

VRAM 128 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2418 MHz

TDP 140 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

120,027

28,569

geekbench_vulkan

114,648

31,042

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GB10

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

6,144

1,664 -72.9%

Shaders

6,144

1,664 -72.9%

TMUs

384

104 -72.9%

ROPs

48

56 +16.7%

SM Count

48

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Clocks

Base Clock

1665 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2418 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1067 MHz 8.5 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

128 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

131,072

4,096 -96.9%

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

273.2 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

256 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

50 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

116.1 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

928.5 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

29.71 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

464.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

29.71 TFLOPS (1:1)

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AI/RT

RT Cores

48

—

Tensor Cores

384

—

Power

TDP

140 W

148 W

TDP (W)

140

148 +5.7%

Suggested PSU

300 W

300 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GB20B

GM204

Generation

Server Blackwell (Bxx)

GeForce 900

Process Size

5 nm

28 nm

Transistors

—

5,200 million

Die Size

—

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

—

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

—

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

—

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

12.1

5.2

Shader Model

—

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

IGP

Dual-slot

Length

150 mm 5.9 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

51 mm 2 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

3,999 USD

329 USD

Production

Active

End-of-life

Predecessor

Server Hopper

GeForce 700

Successor

Server Rubin

GeForce 10

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