RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce GTX 970M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1695MHz vs 1038MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+487%
15620
GeForce GTX 970M
2657
3DMark Time Spy
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+291%
8910
GeForce GTX 970M
2274
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+242%
3580
GeForce GTX 970M
1044
Blender
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+1228%
2764
GeForce GTX 970M
208
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Oct 2014
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1395 MHz
Base Clock
924 MHz
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
Render Config
36
SM Count
-
4608
Shading Units
1280
144
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
48
144
Tensor Cores
-
36
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
32 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
81.36 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
244.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
15.62 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
15.62 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
244.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
Unknown
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD106
GPU Name
GM204
-
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
22.9 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
188 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
5.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
