NVIDIA DRIVE A100 PROD vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2020
Sep 2014
Generation
DRIVE
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1260 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
32GB
4GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
6144bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1.87TB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
-
Shading Units
6912
1664
TMUs
432
104
ROPs
192
56
Tensor Cores
432
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
32 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
241.9 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
544.3 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
69.67 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
17.42 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
8.709 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
400W
148W
Suggested PSU
800 W
300 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
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