GeForce GTX 970 vs A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
A2 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1770MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (60W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
A2
+15%
4531
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
A2
+195%
902
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 2021
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
10
1664
Shading Units
1280
104
TMUs
40
56
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
60W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA107
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
Unknown
398 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
