NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A2000 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 RTX A2000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1207MHz vs 1038MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A2000 Max Q
+132%
6.18 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970M
2.657 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Oct 2014
Ampere-MW
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
682 MHz
Base Clock
924 MHz
1207 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
1280
80
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
48
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
57.94 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
96.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
6.180 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.180 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
96.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GM204
-
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
200 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
8.6
CUDA
5.2
6.8
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
