NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 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 SUPER 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 122% (2610MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
6784 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
+1025%
44.1 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
+566%
24314
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
+605%
11874
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
+2497%
7921
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
77
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
+1011%
856
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
+673%
116
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
+633%
220
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
+645%
298
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
+261%
152
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
+295%
174
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
+93%
190
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2024
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2340 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2610 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
672.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
66
1664
Shading Units
8448
104
TMUs
264
56
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
264
-
RT Cores
66
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
250.6 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
689.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
44.10 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.10 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
689.0 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
AD103
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
AD103-275-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
45.9 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
379 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
