NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A2000

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 155.96 significantly less expensive

$ 524.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

3755 points

66% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS

96 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

45 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

64 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

35 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

170% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1346 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

1954.21 points

574% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

84002 points

224% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

76373 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

58378 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

73300 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

69543 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

86% significantly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1200 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

288 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

70 W

107% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

14% slightly higher pixel rate

57.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

124.8 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

7.99 TFLOPS

103% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

3328

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

Identical

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

130th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2021 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs RTX A2000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A2000 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the RTX A2000 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the RTX A2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the RTX A2000 is better than the GeForce GTX 970.