NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 96GB VRAM RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max Q 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 300W)
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 94% (2288MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (96GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
22400 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max Q
+2708%
110.1 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 900
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1590 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2288 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
96GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
188
1664
Shading Units
24064
104
TMUs
752
56
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
752
-
RT Cores
188
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
439.3 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1721 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
110.1 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
110.1 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.721 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GB202
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
750 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
5.2
CUDA
12.0
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
