NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1230MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q +326%

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1230 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

1280

Shading Units

4608

80

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

11.34 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.34 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

177.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD106

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

GN21-X6

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

190 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

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.7

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