NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Apr 2021
Generation
GeForce 900M
Quadro Ampere
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
924 MHz
1170 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1695 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1280
8192
TMUs
80
256
ROPs
48
96
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
6 MB
SM Count
—
64
Tensor Cores
—
256
RT Cores
—
64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
433.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GA102
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
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Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
230W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
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
6.7 (6.4)
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.