NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 114% (2520MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

20096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +2698%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

170

1664

Shading Units

21760

104

TMUs

680

56

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

680

-

RT Cores

170

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

88 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GB202

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 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

10.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.8

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