Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Sep 2014 Aug 2018
Generation GeForce 900 Quadro
Type Desktop Professional
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1050 MHz 1620 MHz
Boost Clock 1178 MHz 1815 MHz
Memory Clock 1753 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 16GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 224.4GB/s 448.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 1664 3072
TMUs 104 192
ROPs 56 64
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 2 MB 4 MB
SM Count 48
Tensor Cores 384
RT Cores 48
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 65.97 GPixel/s 116.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 122.5 GTexel/s 348.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.920 TFLOPS 11.15 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 122.5 GFLOPS 348.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 22.30 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM204 TU104
GPU Variant GM204-200-A1 TU104-875-A1
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Turing
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 12 nm
Transistors 5.2 billion 13.6 billion
Die Size 398 mm² 545 mm²
Board Design
TDP 148W 230W
Suggested PSU 300 W 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a 4x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
CUDA 5.2 7.5
Shader Model 6.4 6.6