NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2017
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1215 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
—
Shading Units
2048
1664
TMUs
128
104
ROPs
64
56
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
88.26 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.5 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
88.26 GFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
5.648 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
176.5 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
GM204
GPU Variant
N17E-G2-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
115W
148W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
6.1
5.2
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,683
OctaneBench
—
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
40
Blender
—
305
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.