NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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 360W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 122% (2617MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
9088 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5080
+1335%
56.28 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce RTX 5080
+808%
33116
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce RTX 5080
+887%
16627
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
GeForce RTX 5080
+2900%
9152
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 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
2295 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2617 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
960.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
84
1664
Shading Units
10752
104
TMUs
336
56
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
293.1 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
879.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
56.28 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
56.28 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
879.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
360W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 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
GB203
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GB203-400-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
45.6 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
378 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
