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

RTX A3000 Mobile

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1230 MHz

TDP 70 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

79,091

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

61,189

passmark_directx_10

46

N/A

passmark_directx_11

71

N/A

passmark_directx_12

41

N/A

passmark_directx_9

143

N/A

passmark_g2d

764

N/A

passmark_g3d

9,638

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX A3000 Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

4,096 +146.2%

Shaders

1,664

4,096 +146.2%

TMUs

104

128 +23.1%

ROPs

56

64 +14.3%

SM Count

—

32

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

600 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1230 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1375 MHz 11 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

6,144 +50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

264.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

78.72 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

157.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

10.08 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

157.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

10.08 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

32

Tensor Cores

—

128

Power

TDP

148 W

70 W

TDP (W)

148

70 -52.7%

Suggested PSU

300 W

—

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM204

GA104

Generation

GeForce 900

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

Dual-slot

—

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

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Quadro Turing-M

Successor

GeForce 10

Ada-MW

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