GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1683MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+108%
8186
GeForce GTX 970
3920
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+87%
6839
GeForce GTX 970
3646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+86%
3134
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Blender
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+120%
673
GeForce GTX 970
305
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+66%
128
GeForce GTX 970
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+106%
31
GeForce GTX 970
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+103%
61
GeForce GTX 970
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+145%
98
GeForce GTX 970
40
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+61%
68
GeForce GTX 970
42
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+63%
72
GeForce GTX 970
44
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
+55%
152
GeForce GTX 970
98
Graphics Card
Nov 2017
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
19
SM Count
-
2432
Shading Units
1664
152
TMUs
104
64
ROPs
56
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
255.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
127.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.186 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
255.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
148W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GM204
GP104-300-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
