NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1560 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1860 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
24GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1.01TB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
-
Shading Units
10752
1664
TMUs
336
104
ROPs
112
56
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
208.3 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
625.0 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
40.00 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
40.00 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
625.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GM204
GPU Variant
GA102-350-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
450W
148W
Suggested PSU
850 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.4
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
21,832
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
11,318
1,683
3DMark Speed Way
5,903
-
Blender
6,217
305
OctaneBench
-
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
40