NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Oct 2020
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
48GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
10752
TMUs
104
336
ROPs
56
112
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
6 MB
SM Count
-
84
Tensor Cores
-
336
RT Cores
-
84
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
201.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
604.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
38.71 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
604.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
38.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GA102
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
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Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
300W
Suggested PSU
300 W
700 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
8-pin EPS
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
8.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
17,742
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
9,324
OctaneBench
77
600
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
-
Blender
305
5,387
3DMark Speed Way
-
4,965