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 5060 Ti 16 GB

CORE STATE GB206

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2572 MHz

TDP 180 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

3,577

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

N/A

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

N/A

passmark_directx_10

46

N/A

passmark_directx_11

71

N/A

passmark_directx_12

41

N/A

passmark_directx_9

143

N/A

passmark_g2d

764

N/A

passmark_g3d

9,638

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

4,608 +176.9%

Shaders

1,664

4,608 +176.9%

TMUs

104

144 +38.5%

ROPs

56

48 -14.3%

SM Count

—

36

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2407 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2572 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

16,384 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

32 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

123.5 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

370.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

23.70 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

370.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

23.70 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

36

Tensor Cores

—

144

Power

TDP

148 W

180 W

TDP (W)

148

180 +21.6%

Suggested PSU

300 W

450 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GB206

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 50

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

21,900 million

Die Size

398 mm²

181 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

121.0M / 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

12.0

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

429 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 40

Successor

GeForce 10

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