NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 110% (2475MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

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

5504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +805%

35.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +478%

20968

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Blender

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +2153%

6872

GeForce GTX 970

305

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +818%

707

GeForce GTX 970

77

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +526%

94

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +513%

184

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +590%

276

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +242%

144

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +259%

158

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +93%

190

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1980 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

-

7168

Shading Units

1664

224

TMUs

104

80

ROPs

56

224

Tensor Cores

-

56

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

198.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

554.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

35.48 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.48 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

554.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

148W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GM204

AD104-350-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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