NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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

Boost Clock has increased by 118% (2565MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1152GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

16512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 600W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 Ti +2278%

93.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2325 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2565 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1152GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

18176

Shading Units

1664

568

TMUs

104

192

ROPs

56

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

96 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

492.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

1457 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

93.24 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

93.24 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

1457 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GM204

AD102-400-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

Board Design

600W

TDP

148W

1000 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 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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