NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1440MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +163%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

A30 PCIe +574%

2036

GeForce GTX 970

302

A30 PCIe

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Sep 2014

Tesla Ampere

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1664

224

TMUs

104

96

ROPs

56

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

5.2

N/A

Shader Model

6.4

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