NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 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 TiM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1410MHz 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 TiM +323%

16.6 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

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GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 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

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

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Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

135.4 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.60 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.60 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

259.4 GFLOPS

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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA104

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

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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