NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1695MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

8832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +807%

35.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

GeForce RTX 3090 +450%

19948

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

GeForce RTX 3090 +520%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

GeForce RTX 3090 +413%

154

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce RTX 3090 +400%

200

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

GeForce RTX 3090 +211%

131

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

GeForce RTX 3090 +313%

182

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 3090 +113%

209

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

82

1664

Shading Units

10496

104

TMUs

328

56

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

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 Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA102

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-300-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

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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