GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 4070

CORE STATE AD104

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2475 MHz

TDP 200 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

3,854

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

168,006

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

157,352

passmark_directx_10

46

139

passmark_directx_11

71

244

passmark_directx_12

41

103

passmark_directx_9

143

320

passmark_g2d

764

1,164

passmark_g3d

9,638

26,927

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

14,720

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX 4070

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

5,888 +253.8%

Shaders

1,664

5,888 +253.8%

TMUs

104

184 +76.9%

ROPs

56

64 +14.3%

SM Count

—

46

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1920 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2475 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1313 MHz 21 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

12,288 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

504.2 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

36 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

158.4 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

455.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

29.15 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

46

Tensor Cores

—

184

Power

TDP

148 W

200 W

TDP (W)

148

200 +35.1%

Suggested PSU

300 W

550 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM204

AD104

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 40

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

35,800 million

Die Size

398 mm²

294 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

121.8M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

8.9

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

240 mm 9.4 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

110 mm 4.3 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

599 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 30

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 50

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