GeForce GTX 970 Overview

GeForce GTX 970
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 970

Core Configuration

GPU GM204
Architecture Nvidia_Maxwell_2_0
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 1664 : 104 : 56
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 3494.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 4096 Mb
Memory Bus Width 256 bit
Memory Speed 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 224.40 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • GeForce RTX 4090
    963%
  • GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB
    839%
  • Radeon RX 7900 XTX
    787%
  • GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
    719%
  • Radeon RX 7900 XT
    704%
  • GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
    690%
  • GeForce RTX 3090
    672%
  • Radeon RX 6950 XT
    644%
  • GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
    603%
  • Radeon RX 6900 XT
    595%
  • GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
    582%
  • GeForce RTX 4070
    563%
  • Radeon RX 6800 XT
    550%
  • GeForce RTX 3080
    547%
  • Radeon RX 6800
    488%
  • GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
    467%
  • Radeon RX 6750 XT
    462%
  • GeForce RTX 3070
    414%
  • GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB
    408%
  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    386%
  • GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
    372%
  • GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
    364%
  • GeForce RTX 2080 Super
    320%
  • Radeon RX 7600
    309%
  • Radeon RX 6650 XT
    305%
  • Geforce GTX TITAN Xp
    300%
  • GeForce RTX 2080
    297%
  • GeForce RTX 2070 Super
    293%
  • GeForce RTX 3060
    292%
  • Radeon VII
    287%
  • Radeon RX 6600 XT
    284%
  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    276%
  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    275%
  • GeForce RTX 2060 Super
    249%
  • Radeon RX 5700
    244%
  • Radeon RX 6600
    236%
  • GeForce RTX 2070
    231%
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    218%
  • Radeon RX Vega 64
    212%
  • GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
    210%
  • Radeon RX 5600 XT
    204%
  • GeForce RTX 2060
    199%
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
    197%
  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    190%
  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
    183%
  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    178%
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    171%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    156%
  • GeForce GTX 1660
    155%
  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    151%
  • Radeon RX 590
    147%
  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    141%
  • GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
    141%
  • Radeon R9 390X
    133%
  • Radeon RX 580
    133%
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    132%
  • Radeon RX 480
    121%
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    120%
  • Radeon RX 570
    118%
  • GeForce GTX 980
    118%
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    118%
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    117%
  • Radeon RX 6400
    111%
  • Radeon RX 470
    107%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 1650
    94%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    78%
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    69%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The GeForce GTX 970 is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 19 Sep 2014. The graphics card houses the GM204 die, based on the Nvidia_Maxwell_2_0 architecture which packs 5,200 million transistors on a 28 nm, 398 mm2 die.

GeForce GTX 970 pros and cons

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

GeForce GTX 970GeForce GTX 1650Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 1060Radeon RX 470
GeForce GTX 970GeForce GTX 1650Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 1060Radeon RX 470
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Shader units1664896204812802048
ROPs5632324832
Graphics processorGM204TU107EllesmereGP106Ellesmere
Process size28 nm12 nm14 nm16 nm14 nm
Memory4096 Mb GDDR5 (1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective)
4096 Mb GDDR5 (2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective)
4096 Mb GDDR5 (1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective)
6144 Mb GDDR5 (2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective)
4096 Mb GDDR5 (1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective)
Memory bus width256 bit128 bit256 bit192 bit256 bit
Memory bandwidth224.40 Gb/s128.00 Gb/s211.20 Gb/s192.20 Gb/s211.20 Gb/s
Release date19 Sep 201430 Apr 20191 Apr 201710 Jul 201629 Jun 2016

Benchmarks

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

  • Radeon RX 570
    52
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    52
  • Radeon RX 470
    48
  • GeForce GTX 970
    44
  • GeForce GTX 1650
    42

FPS (higher is better)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

  • Radeon RX 570
    34
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    34
  • Radeon RX 470
    31
  • GeForce GTX 970
    29
  • GeForce GTX 1650
    27

FPS (higher is better)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

  • Radeon RX 570
    17
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17
  • Radeon RX 470
    15
  • GeForce GTX 970
    14

FPS (higher is better)