GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

RTX A1000

CORE STATE GA107

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1462 MHz

TDP 50 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2024

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

472

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,991

52,078

geekbench_vulkan

18,516

49,574

passmark_directx_10

28

N/A

passmark_directx_11

42

N/A

passmark_directx_12

24

N/A

passmark_directx_9

99

N/A

passmark_g2d

381

N/A

passmark_g3d

5,704

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

2,289

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970M

RTX A1000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

2,304 +80.0%

Shaders

1,280

2,304 +80.0%

TMUs

80

72 -10.0%

ROPs

48

32 -33.3%

SM Count

—

18

Clocks

Base Clock

924 MHz

727 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1462 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

8,192 +33.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

192 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

192.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

46.78 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

105.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.657 TFLOPS

6.737 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

105.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

6.737 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

18

Tensor Cores

—

72

Power

TDP

—

50 W

TDP (W)

—

50

Suggested PSU

—

250 W

Power Connectors

None

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM204

GA107

Generation

GeForce 900M

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

8,700 million

Die Size

398 mm²

200 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

13.1M / mm²

43.5M / 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

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Single-slot

Length

—

163 mm 6.4 inches

Height

—

69 mm 2.7 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

Quadro Turing

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

Workstation Ada

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