NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A4000

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 1016.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1385.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

7111 points

214% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

175 FPS

128 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

88 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

119 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

65 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

11018 points

202% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

3139.35 points

982% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

124547 points

380% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

116149 points

298% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

83390 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

122638 points

318% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

127645 points

294% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

42% much higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1560 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

448 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

140 W

3% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

149.8 Gigapixels/s

127% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

299.5 Gigatexels/s

144% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

389% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

6144

269% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

192

84% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

71% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

66th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2021 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 A4000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the RTX A4000 beats the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 970 has a much higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the RTX A4000 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the RTX A4000 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the RTX A4000 has a slightly lower TDP at 140 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 A4000 is better than the GeForce GTX 970.