NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 114% (2520MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

14720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (148W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +2006%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +909%

36549

GeForce GTX 970

3622

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +4178%

12921

GeForce GTX 970

302

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4090 +1538%

1278

GeForce GTX 970

78

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +1133%

185

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +833%

280

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +660%

304

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +297%

167

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +320%

185

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +89%

186

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

1664

512

TMUs

104

176

ROPs

56

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GM204

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

148W

850 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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