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 A6000

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 48 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1800 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

472

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,991

180,149

geekbench_vulkan

18,516

165,451

passmark_directx_10

28

155

passmark_directx_11

42

191

passmark_directx_12

24

87

passmark_directx_9

99

245

passmark_g2d

381

913

passmark_g3d

5,704

22,577

passmark_gpu_compute

2,289

14,110

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970M

RTX A6000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

10,752 +740.0%

Shaders

1,280

10,752 +740.0%

TMUs

80

336 +320.0%

ROPs

48

112 +133.3%

SM Count

—

84

Clocks

Base Clock

924 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

48 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

49,152 +700.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

192 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

201.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.657 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

604.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

38.71 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

84

Tensor Cores

—

336

Power

TDP

—

300 W

TDP (W)

—

300

Suggested PSU

—

700 W

Power Connectors

None

8-pin EPS

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM204

GA102

Generation

GeForce 900M

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

28,300 million

Die Size

398 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

13.1M / mm²

45.1M / 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

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

4,649 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

Quadro Turing

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

Workstation Ada

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