A100 PCIe vs GeForce GTX 970M SLI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking228not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.32no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataGA100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 October 2014 (10 years ago)22 June 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores25606912
Core clock speed924 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed1038 MHzno data
Number of transistors2x 5200 Million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)162 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rateno data609.1
Floating-point processing powerno data19.49 TFLOPS
ROPsno data160
TMUsno data432
Tensor Coresno data432

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-pin
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount2x 6 GB40 GB
Memory bus width2x 192 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz1215 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1,555 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA+8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2014 22 June 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 162 Watt 250 Watt

GTX 970M SLI has 54.3% lower power consumption.

A100 PCIe, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 970M SLI and A100 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 970M SLI is a notebook card while A100 PCIe is a workstation one.


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