NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA RTX A400

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A400, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2272 points

113% significantly better overall score

1066 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

430.09 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23151 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

21816 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

727 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1762 MHz

49% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

50 W

190% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

134% significantly higher pixel rate

28.19 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

189% significantly higher texture rate

42.29 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

116% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

333% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

195th of 604

268th of 604

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2024 April

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 A400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970 beats the RTX A400 in gaming performance.

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 A400 has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the RTX A400 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the RTX A400.