NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2018
Sep 2014
Generation
Quadro Turing
GeForce 900
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1005 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
416.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
36
-
Shading Units
2304
1664
TMUs
144
104
ROPs
64
56
Tensor Cores
288
-
RT Cores
36
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
98.88 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
14.24 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
222.5 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU104
GM204
GPU Variant
TU104-850-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Turing
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
13.6 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
545 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
160W
148W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-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
7.5
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
7,853
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,696
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