GeForce GTX 970 vs L20
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 48GB VRAM L20 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 275W)
L20 Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 114% (2520MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
10112 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
L20
+1414%
59350
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
Tesla Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
864.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
92
1664
Shading Units
11776
104
TMUs
368
56
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
368
-
RT Cores
92
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
322.6 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
927.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
59.35 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
59.35 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
927.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
275W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
AD102
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
AD102
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
