NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Apr 2021
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
735 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1560 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
6144
TMUs
104
192
ROPs
56
96
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
SM Count
—
48
Tensor Cores
—
192
RT Cores
—
48
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
149.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
299.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
19.17 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
299.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
19.17 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GA104
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
GA104-875-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
140W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
8.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
11,079
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
5,367
OctaneBench
77
352
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
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Blender
305
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.