GeForce GTX 970 vs RTX 5000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 Ada Generation 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 250W)
RTX 5000 Ada Generation Advantages
Released 8 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 116% (2550MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
11136 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
+1565%
65280
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
+288%
14170
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
+654%
12700
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
+1871%
6013
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
77
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
+959%
816
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Aug 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1155 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2550 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
576.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
100
1664
Shading Units
12800
104
TMUs
400
56
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
400
-
RT Cores
100
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
72 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
448.8 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1020 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
65.28 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
65.28 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1020 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
250W
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
