GeForce GTX 970 vs RTX 2000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 81% (2130MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (70W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+206%
12000
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+123%
8147
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+113%
3601
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+768%
2649
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
77
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+283%
295
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Feb 2024
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1620 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2130 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
22
1664
Shading Units
2816
104
TMUs
88
56
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
88
-
RT Cores
22
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
12 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.2 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
187.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.00 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.00 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
187.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
70W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
AD107
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
18.9 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
159 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
