NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q 8 GB
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 8GB VRAM RTX A2000 Max Q 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1177MHz vs 1038MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970M
2.657 TFLOPS
RTX A2000 Max Q 8 GB
+126%
6.026 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2014
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 900M
Generation
Ampere-MW
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
924 MHz
Base Clock
607 MHz
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
1177 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
120.3GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
20
1280
Shading Units
2560
80
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
49.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.50 GPixel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
94.16 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.026 TFLOPS
2.657 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.026 TFLOPS
83.04 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
94.16 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
95W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA107
N16E-GT-A2
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
6.7 (6.4)
Shader Model
6.8
