GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA 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

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

CORE STATE AD103

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2550 MHz

TDP 320 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2024

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

6,600

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

246,994

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

226,163

passmark_directx_10

46

193

passmark_directx_11

71

301

passmark_directx_12

41

134

passmark_directx_9

143

381

passmark_g2d

764

1,270

passmark_g3d

9,638

34,245

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

19,822

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX 4080 SUPER

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

10,240 +515.4%

Shaders

1,664

10,240 +515.4%

TMUs

104

320 +207.7%

ROPs

56

112 +100.0%

SM Count

—

80

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2295 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2550 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1438 MHz 23 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

16,384 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

736.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

64 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

285.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

816.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

52.22 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

816.0 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

52.22 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

80

Tensor Cores

—

320

Power

TDP

148 W

320 W

TDP (W)

148

320 +116.2%

Suggested PSU

300 W

700 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM204

AD103

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 40

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

45,900 million

Die Size

398 mm²

379 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

121.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

8.9

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Triple-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

310 mm 12.2 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

140 mm 5.5 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

999 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 30

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 50

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