NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada Generation and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 113% (2505MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

16512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +2222%

91.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +3794%

11762

GeForce GTX 970

302

OctaneBench

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +1302%

1094

GeForce GTX 970

78

RTX 6000 Ada Generation

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GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Dec 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

Quadro Ada

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

960.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

18176

Shading Units

1664

568

TMUs

104

192

ROPs

56

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

96 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

481.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

1423 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

91.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

91.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

1423 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GM204

AD102

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

148W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x 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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