NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Passive vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2018
Sep 2014
Generation
Quadro Turing
GeForce 900
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1275 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1620 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
24GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
624.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
72
—
Shading Units
4608
1664
TMUs
288
104
ROPs
96
56
Tensor Cores
576
—
RT Cores
72
—
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
155.5 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
466.6 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.86 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
14.93 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
466.6 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU102
GM204
GPU Variant
TU102-875-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Turing
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
18.6 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
754 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
260W
148W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,683
OctaneBench
—
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
40
Blender
—
305
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.