NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 113% (2505MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

8064 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 +1143%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4080 +679%

28257

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +780%

132

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +720%

246

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +650%

300

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +202%

127

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +311%

181

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +85%

182

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 4080

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GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

9728

Shading Units

1664

304

TMUs

104

112

ROPs

56

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GM204

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

148W

700 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 16-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

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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