NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (2175MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

4480 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +581%

26.73 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +1453%

4737

GeForce GTX 970

305

OctaneBench

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +538%

492

GeForce GTX 970

77

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Sep 2014

Quadro Ada(x000A)

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2175 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

48

SM Count

-

6144

Shading Units

1664

192

TMUs

104

80

ROPs

56

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

174.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

417.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

26.73 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

26.73 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

148W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GM204

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GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

294 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

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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