NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 250W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 113% (2512MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
4480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5070
+687%
30.87 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce RTX 5070
+518%
22544
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce RTX 5070
+541%
10789
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
GeForce RTX 5070
+1926%
6182
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2325 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2512 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
48
1664
Shading Units
6144
104
TMUs
192
56
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
201.0 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
482.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
30.87 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.87 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
482.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GB205
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GB205-300-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
31.1 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
263 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
5.2
CUDA
10.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
