GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 5090 D
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 575W)
GeForce RTX 5090 D 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 104% (2407MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
20096 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce RTX 5090 D
+2573%
104800
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce RTX 5090 D
+1217%
48052
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce RTX 5090 D
+1444%
25999
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2025
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2017 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2407 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
170
1664
Shading Units
21760
104
TMUs
680
56
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
680
-
RT Cores
170
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
423.6 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1637 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
104.8 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.8 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.637 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
575W
300 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GB202
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
750 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
5.2
CUDA
10.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
