NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 20GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1665MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

8576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB +769%

34.1 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

302

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB +1984%

6294

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970

78

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB +721%

641

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1335 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

80

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

10240

104

TMUs

320

56

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA102

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

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