NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2024
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 40
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1920 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
46
—
Shading Units
5888
1664
TMUs
184
104
ROPs
64
56
Tensor Cores
184
—
RT Cores
46
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
36 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD104
GM204
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
35.8 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
148W
Suggested PSU
550 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.9
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
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.