NVIDIA RTX A2000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2021
Sep 2014
Generation
Quadro Ampere
GeForce 900
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
562 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1200 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
26
-
Shading Units
3328
1664
TMUs
104
104
ROPs
48
56
Tensor Cores
104
-
RT Cores
26
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.987 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
7.987 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GM204
GPU Variant
GA106-850-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
70W
148W
Suggested PSU
250 W
300 W
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
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
6.7
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