NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1350MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 Max Q +524%

16.59 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

RTX A5000 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 900M

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

720 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1350 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

129.6 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.59 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.59 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

259.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA104

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

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

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.7

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