NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 +64%

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

GeForce GTX 1070 +67%

6066

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

GeForce GTX 1070 +73%

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

GeForce GTX 1070 +66%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce GTX 1070 +92%

77

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

GeForce GTX 1070 +14%

48

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

GeForce GTX 1070 +90%

84

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce GTX 1070 +51%

148

GeForce GTX 970

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GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

1920

104

TMUs

120

56

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP104

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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