GeForce GTX 970 vs RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 48GB VRAM RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 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 300W)
RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell Advantages
Released 10 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 122% (2617MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.34TB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
12416 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
+1779%
73690
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 900
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1590 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2617 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
1.34TB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
110
1664
Shading Units
14080
104
TMUs
440
56
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
440
-
RT Cores
110
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
460.6 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1151 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
73.69 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
73.69 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1151 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GB202
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
750 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
5.2
CUDA
10.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
