NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Feb 2024
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro Ada
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1620 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
2130 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
2816
TMUs
104
88
ROPs
56
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
12 MB
SM Count
-
22
Tensor Cores
-
88
RT Cores
-
22
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
102.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
187.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
12.00 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
187.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.00 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
AD107
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
-
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
18.9 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
159 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
70W
Suggested PSU
300 W
250 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
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
8.9
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
8,147
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
3,601
OctaneBench
77
295
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
-
Blender
305
2,649
3DMark Speed Way
-
1,970