MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z vs ZOTAC GTX 970

Comparison of MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z with 32 GB GDDR7 and 21,760 cores vs ZOTAC GTX 970 with 4 GB GDDR5 and 1,664 cores.

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Performance Rating

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z outperforms ZOTAC GTX 970 by 1,321.39% in the overall GPU ARK performance rating

A100 A100
H200 H200
MI325X MI325X

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2
RX 7900 XTX RX 7900 XTX
MI250 MI250
Instinct MI300X Instinct MI300X

ZOTAC GTX 970

3.3

ZOTAC GTX 970

3.3

Contents:

Memory ML Performance Compute Power Architecture & Compatibility ML Software Support Clocks & Performance Power Consumption Rendering Additional

Memory

Memory Size

🔥 +700% 32 ГБ
4 GB

Memory Type

GDDR7 GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

🔥 1.79 TB/s
224.4 GB/s

Memory Bus Width

512 бит 256 бит

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

🔥 118.8 TFLOPS
No

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

🔥 +2,836% 118.8 TFLOPS
4.047 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

🔥 +1,367% 1.856 TFLOPS
0.1265 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

🔥 +1,208% 21,760
1,664

RT Cores

🔥 170
No

Architecture & Compatibility

GPU Architecture

Blackwell 2.0 Maxwell 2.0

SM (Streaming Multiprocessor)

🔥 170
No

PCIe Version

PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16

ML Software Support

CUDA Version

🔥 12.0
5.2

Clocks & Performance

Base Clock

🔥 +87% 2,017
1,076

Boost Clock

🔥 +125% 2,730
1,216

Memory Clock

🔥 1,750
1,753

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

1400 W
🔥 -79% 300 W

Power Connector

🔥 2x 16-pin
2x 6-pin

TDP/TGP

1000 W
🔥 -85% 148 W

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

🔥 +554% 680
104

ROP

🔥 170
No

L2 Cache

🔥 +4,700% 96 MB
2 MB

Additional

Slots

Triple-slot Dual-slot

Release Date

Jan. 6, 2026 Sept. 19, 2014

Display Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x USB Type-C
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.2

2x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.2

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