GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1038 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
RTX A4000 Mobile
CORE STATE
GA104
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1680 MHz
TDP
115 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 970M
RTX A4000 Mobile
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
5,120
+300.0%
Shaders
1,280
5,120
+300.0%
TMUs
80
160
+100.0%
ROPs
48
80
+66.7%
SM Count
—
40
Clocks
Base Clock
924 MHz
1140 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1680 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
256 bit
Bandwidth
120.3 GB/s
384.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
134.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
268.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.657 TFLOPS
17.20 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
268.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
17.20 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
40
Tensor Cores
—
160
Power
TDP
—
115 W
TDP (W)
—
115
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
GPU Name
GM204
GA104
Generation
GeForce 900M
Ampere-MW
(Ax000)
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
17,400 million
Die Size
398 mm²
392 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
13.1M / mm²
44.4M / 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
—
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
Quadro Turing-M
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
Ada-MW