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 4000 SFF Ada Generation

CORE STATE AD104

VRAM 20 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1560 MHz

TDP 70 W

BUS WIDTH 160 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

124,812

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

109,364

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 4000 SFF Ada Generation

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

6,144 +269.2%

Shaders

1,664

6,144 +269.2%

TMUs

104

192 +84.6%

ROPs

56

64 +14.3%

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

720 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1560 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

20 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

20,480 +400.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

160 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

280.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

48 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

99.84 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

299.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

299.5 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

19.17 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

192

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

AD104

Generation

GeForce 900

Workstation Ada (x000A)

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

35,800 million

Die Size

398 mm²

294 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

121.8M / 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 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Workstation Ampere

Successor

GeForce 10

Blackwell PRO W

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