GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 4090 D
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 D 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 425W)
GeForce RTX 4090 D 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 114% (2520MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
12928 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce RTX 4090 D
+1776%
73540
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce RTX 4090 D
+839%
34258
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce RTX 4090 D
+964%
17914
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
GeForce RTX 4090 D
+3808%
11920
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
77
GeForce RTX 4090 D
+1533%
1258
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Dec 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2280 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
1008GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
114
1664
Shading Units
14592
104
TMUs
456
56
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
456
-
RT Cores
114
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
72 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
443.5 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1149 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
73.54 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
73.54 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1149 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
425W
300 W
Suggested PSU
800 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
AD102
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
AD102-250-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
609 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
