GeForce GTX 970 vs B100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 96GB VRAM B100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 1000W)
B100 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 56% (1837MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (96GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (4.10TB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
15232 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
B100
+1483%
62080
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 2024
GeForce 900
Generation
Server Blackwell
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1665 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1837 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
96GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM3e
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
4.10TB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
132
1664
Shading Units
16896
104
TMUs
528
56
ROPs
24
-
Tensor Cores
528
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
256 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
50 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
44.09 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
969.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
248.3 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
62.08 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.04 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
1000W
300 W
Suggested PSU
1400 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GB102
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
104 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
10.1
6.4
Shader Model
N/A
