GeForce GTX 970 vs RTX A4000H
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM RTX A4000H to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A4000H 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1560MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
4480 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (140W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
RTX A4000H
+389%
19170
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
735 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1560 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
48
1664
Shading Units
6144
104
TMUs
192
56
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
149.8 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
19.17 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.17 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
140W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA104
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GA104-???-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
392 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
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
