NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 10 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 220W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 114% (2520MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (10GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (420.2GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
5504 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB
+821%
36.13 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2355 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
10GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
160bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
420.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
56
1664
Shading Units
7168
104
TMUs
224
56
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
224
-
RT Cores
56
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
201.6 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
564.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
36.13 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
36.13 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
564.5 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 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
AD104
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-275-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
294 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
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
