GeForce GTX 970 and Quadro FX 4000 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Quadro FX 4000

GeForce GTX 970

9932

Quadro FX 4000

104

GeForce GTX 970

Quadro FX 4000

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

GM204

NV40

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

September 2014

April 2004

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

AGP 8x

Recommended system power (PSU)

500 Watt

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pins

2x Molex

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1178 MHz

Core clock speed

1050 MHz

375 MHz

CUDA cores

1664

Floating-point performance

3,920 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

222 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1664

Power consumption (TDP)

145 Watt

142 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

98 °C

Texture fill rate

109 billion/sec

4.500

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

7.0 GB/s

1000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

32 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

4 displays

HDMI

HDCP

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

G-SYNC support

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

DirectX

12 (12_1)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

Shader Model

6.4

3.0

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A

GameStream

GameWorks

GeForce ShadowPlay

GPU Boost

2.0