NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1462MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

RTX A1000 +71%

6.737 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

RTX A1000

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2024

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

727 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1462 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

2304

104

TMUs

72

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.78 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.737 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.737 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.3 GFLOPS

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

8.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7

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