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 A4000

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1560 MHz

TDP 140 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

2,604

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

121,988

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

111,712

passmark_directx_10

46

126

passmark_directx_11

71

158

passmark_directx_12

41

72

passmark_directx_9

143

240

passmark_g2d

764

1,024

passmark_g3d

9,638

19,459

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

9,760

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX A4000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

6,144 +269.2%

Shaders

1,664

6,144 +269.2%

TMUs

104

192 +84.6%

ROPs

56

96 +71.4%

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

735 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1560 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 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

448.0 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

149.8 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

299.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

299.5 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

19.17 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

192

Power

TDP

148 W

140 W

TDP (W)

148

140 -5.4%

Suggested PSU

300 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM204

GA104

Generation

GeForce 900

Workstation Ampere (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

Single-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

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

Successor

GeForce 10

Workstation Ada

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