NVIDIA RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2023
Sep 2014
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
930 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1455 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
24
—
Shading Units
3072
1664
TMUs
96
104
ROPs
48
56
Tensor Cores
96
—
RT Cores
24
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
12 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
69.84 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
139.7 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.940 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
8.940 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
139.7 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD107
GM204
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
18.9 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
159 mm²
398 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GM204-200-A1
Board Design
TDP
35W
148W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
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
8.9
5.2
Shader Model
6.7
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.