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

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

CORE STATE AD103

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1695 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 256 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

180,831

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

170,774

passmark_directx_10

46

173

passmark_directx_11

71

262

passmark_directx_12

41

107

passmark_directx_9

143

310

passmark_g2d

764

984

passmark_g3d

9,638

27,212

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

12,347

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX 4090 Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

9,728 +484.6%

Shaders

1,664

9,728 +484.6%

TMUs

104

304 +192.3%

ROPs

56

112 +100.0%

SM Count

—

76

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1335 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

2250 MHz 18 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

256 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

576.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

64 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

189.8 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

515.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

32.98 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

515.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

32.98 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

76

Tensor Cores

—

304

Power

TDP

148 W

120 W

TDP (W)

148

120 -18.9%

Suggested PSU

300 W

—

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM204

AD103

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 40 Mobile

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

45,900 million

Die Size

398 mm²

379 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

121.1M / 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

8.9

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

IGP

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 30 Mobile

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 50 Mobile

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