NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2025
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 50
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
2017 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
2407 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
24GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1.34TB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
170
—
Shading Units
21760
1664
TMUs
680
104
ROPs
176
56
Tensor Cores
680
—
RT Cores
170
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
96 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
423.6 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
1636.8 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
104.8 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
104.8 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.637 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB202
GM204
GPU Variant
GB202-240-K1-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
92.2 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
750 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
575W
148W
Suggested PSU
950 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.4
1.3
CUDA
12.0
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
46,950
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
25,185
1,683
OctaneBench
—
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
40
Blender
—
305
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.