NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1725MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

4224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +418%

20.31 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

GeForce RTX 3070 +276%

13637

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

GeForce RTX 3070 +253%

53

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

GeForce RTX 3070 +216%

95

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce RTX 3070 +260%

144

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

GeForce RTX 3070 +64%

69

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

GeForce RTX 3070 +138%

105

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 3070 +62%

159

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

5888

104

TMUs

184

56

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA104

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

220W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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