NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA RTX A400
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM RTX A400 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 96.00GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1762MHz vs 1178MHz)
Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+44%
3.92 TFLOPS
RTX A400
2.706 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+74%
3646
RTX A400
2091
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Apr 2024
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro Ampere(Ax000)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1417 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1762 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
6
1664
Shading Units
768
104
TMUs
24
56
ROPs
16
-
Tensor Cores
24
-
RT Cores
6
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.19 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.29 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.706 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.706 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.29 GFLOPS
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 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
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
6.8
