NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 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 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 122% (2610MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

6016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +922%

40.09 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +529%

22832

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

305

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +2096%

6699

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970

77

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +822%

710

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +580%

102

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +566%

200

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +625%

290

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +257%

150

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +286%

170

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +93%

190

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

60

1664

Shading Units

7680

104

TMUs

240

56

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

60

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

285W

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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD104

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

295 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

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