NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1455MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

8448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q +965%

28.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

76

SM Count

-

9728

Shading Units

1280

304

TMUs

80

112

ROPs

48

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

163.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

442.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

28.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

28.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

442.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GM204

GN21-X11

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

379 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

6.7 (6.4)

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