NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2020
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1395 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1219 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
24GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
936.2GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
82
-
Shading Units
10496
1664
TMUs
328
104
ROPs
112
56
Tensor Cores
328
-
RT Cores
82
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
189.8 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
556.0 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
35.58 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
35.58 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GM204
GPU Variant
GA102-300-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
350W
148W
Suggested PSU
750 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-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
1.3
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