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

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

CORE STATE AD107

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2130 MHz

TDP 70 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2024

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

85,370

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

78,461

passmark_directx_10

46

N/A

passmark_directx_11

71

N/A

passmark_directx_12

41

N/A

passmark_directx_9

143

N/A

passmark_g2d

764

N/A

passmark_g3d

9,638

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

2,816 +69.2%

Shaders

1,664

2,816 +69.2%

TMUs

104

88 -15.4%

ROPs

56

48 -14.3%

SM Count

—

22

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2130 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

16,384 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

12 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

102.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

187.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

12.00 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

187.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

12.00 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

22

Tensor Cores

—

88

Power

TDP

148 W

70 W

TDP (W)

148

70 -52.7%

Suggested PSU

300 W

250 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM204

AD107

Generation

GeForce 900

Workstation Ada (x000A)

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

18,900 million

Die Size

398 mm²

159 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

118.9M / 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

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

168 mm 6.6 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

69 mm 2.7 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

649 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Workstation Ampere

Successor

GeForce 10

Blackwell PRO W

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