NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 D 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 4090 D 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 114% (2520MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

12928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 425W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 D +1776%

73.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 D +847%

34332

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 D +3808%

11920

GeForce GTX 970

305

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4090 D +1533%

1258

GeForce GTX 970

77

GeForce RTX 4090 D

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Dec 2023

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2280 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

114

SM Count

-

14592

Shading Units

1664

456

TMUs

104

176

ROPs

56

456

Tensor Cores

-

114

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

1149 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

73.54 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

73.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

1149 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

425W

TDP

148W

800 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 Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GM204

AD102-250-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

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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