NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
384 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)
NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1695MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
A16 PCIe
+10%
4.339 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
A16 PCIe
+67%
510
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 900
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
885 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
231.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
10
1664
Shading Units
1280
104
TMUs
40
56
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
54.24 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
67.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.339 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.339 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA107
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
Unknown
398 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
6.6
