NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB 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 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1770MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

4480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB +454%

21.75 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

305

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB +1241%

4092

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970

77

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB +415%

397

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1575 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

1664

Shading Units

6144

104

TMUs

192

56

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

290W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA104

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-401-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

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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