NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

NVIDIA 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

NVIDIA 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +108%

8.186 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +87%

6814

GeForce GTX 970

3625

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

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 970

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

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