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

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

472

9,223

geekbench_opencl

18,991

317,684

geekbench_vulkan

18,516

270,615

passmark_directx_10

28

224

passmark_directx_11

42

326

passmark_directx_12

24

150

passmark_directx_9

99

397

passmark_g2d

381

1,299

passmark_g3d

5,704

38,194

passmark_gpu_compute

2,289

26,613

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970M

RTX 4090

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

16,384 +1180.0%

Shaders

1,280

16,384 +1180.0%

TMUs

80

512 +540.0%

ROPs

48

176 +266.7%

SM Count

—

128

Clocks

Base Clock

924 MHz

2235 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

2520 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1313 MHz 21 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

24,576 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

192 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

1.01 TB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

72 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

443.5 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

1,290.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.657 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

83.04 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

—

450 W

TDP (W)

—

450

Suggested PSU

—

850 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM204

AD102

Generation

GeForce 900M

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

MXM Module

Triple-slot

Length

—

304 mm 12 inches

Height

—

137 mm 5.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

1,599 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

GeForce 30

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

GeForce 50

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