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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1695MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
8832 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3090 +807%
35.58 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3090 +449%
19908
GeForce GTX 970
3625
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3090 +520%
93
GeForce GTX 970
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3090 +413%
154
GeForce GTX 970
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3090 +400%
200
GeForce GTX 970
40
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3090 +214%
132
GeForce GTX 970
42
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3090 +313%
182
GeForce GTX 970
44
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3090 +113%
209
GeForce GTX 970
98
GeForce RTX 3090
VS
GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Sep 2020
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1219 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz

Memory

24GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
936.2GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s

Render Config

82
SM Count
-
-
Compute Units
-
10496
Shading Units
1664
328
TMUs
104
112
ROPs
56
328
Tensor Cores
-
82
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
556.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
35.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
35.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
556.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102
GPU Name
GM204
GA102-300-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²

Board Design

350W
TDP
148W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.4

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