NVIDIA A100 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2020
Sep 2014
Generation
Tesla
GeForce 900
Type
AI GPU
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
765 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
40GB
4GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
5120bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1555GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
-
Shading Units
6912
1664
TMUs
432
104
ROPs
160
56
Tensor Cores
432
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
40 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
225.6 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
609.1 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
77.97 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
19.49 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
9.746 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
GM204
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
398 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GM204-200-A1
Board Design
TDP
250W
148W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
8.0
5.2
Shader Model
N/A
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