NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2023
Sep 2014
Generation
Workstation Ada
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
2175 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
20GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
160bit
256bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
48
-
Shading Units
6144
1664
TMUs
192
104
ROPs
64
56
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
48 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
139.2 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
417.6 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
26.73 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
26.73 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD104
GM204
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
35.8 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
398 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GM204-200-A1
Board Design
TDP
130W
148W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
4x 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
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.9
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
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