NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 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)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +64%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +112%

641

GeForce GTX 970

302

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +48%

116

GeForce GTX 970

78

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

1664

120

TMUs

104

64

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM204

GP104-200-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

Board Design

150W

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 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

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