NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
780 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1245 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
48
-
Shading Units
6144
1664
TMUs
192
104
ROPs
96
56
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
119.5 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
239.0 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
15.30 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
15.30 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
239.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
GM204
GPU Variant
GA104-775-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
148W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,683
OctaneBench
-
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
40
Blender
-
305