NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2020
Sep 2014
Generation
Quadro Ampere
GeForce 900
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1410 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1800 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
768.0GB/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
201.6 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
604.8 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
38.71 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
38.71 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
604.8 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GM204
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
GPU Variant
-
GM204-200-A1
Board Design
TDP
300W
148W
Suggested PSU
700 W
300 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
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
17,742
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
9,324
1,683
OctaneBench
600
77
3DMark Speed Way
4,965
-
Blender
5,387
305
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
40