GeForce GTX 970M SLI and RTX A4000 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 970M SLI

RTX A4000

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

-

GA104

Market segment

Laptop

Workstation

Release date

October 2014

April 2021

Interface

-

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x 6-pin

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1038 MHz

1560 MHz

Core clock speed

924 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2x 5200 Million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

162 Watt

140 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

299.5

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x 6 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

2x 192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

-

448.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

DirectX

12_1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.6

OpenCL

-

3.0

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.7

Vulkan

-

1.3

Optimus

+

-