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

CORE STATE AD102

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2520 MHz

TDP 450 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

9,223

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

317,684

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

270,615

passmark_directx_10

46

224

passmark_directx_11

71

326

passmark_directx_12

41

150

passmark_directx_9

143

397

passmark_g2d

764

1,299

passmark_g3d

9,638

38,194

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

26,613

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX 4090

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

16,384 +884.6%

Shaders

1,664

16,384 +884.6%

TMUs

104

512 +392.3%

ROPs

56

176 +214.3%

SM Count

—

128

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2235 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2520 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1313 MHz 21 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

24,576 +500.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

1.01 TB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

72 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

443.5 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

1,290.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

1,290.2 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

82.58 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

128

Tensor Cores

—

512

Power

TDP

148 W

450 W

TDP (W)

148

450 +204.1%

Suggested PSU

300 W

850 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM204

AD102

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 40

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

76,300 million

Die Size

398 mm²

609 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

125.3M / 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

Triple-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

304 mm 12 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

137 mm 5.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

1,599 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 30

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 50

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