NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q 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 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

6528 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q +608%

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

RTX A5000 8Q

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

64

1664

Shading Units

8192

104

TMUs

256

56

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

230W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA102

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

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

6.7

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