NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 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 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 116% (2550MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (736.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

8576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +1232%

52.22 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +682%

28371

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

305

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +2926%

9232

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970

77

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +1151%

964

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +820%

138

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +746%

254

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +650%

300

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +300%

168

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +309%

180

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +93%

190

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

2295 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2550 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1438 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

736.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

80

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

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

285.6 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

816.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

52.22 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

52.22 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

816.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

320W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD103

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

AD103-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

379 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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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