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 5070

CORE STATE GB205

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2512 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

5,077

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

185,269

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

179,413

passmark_directx_10

46

180

passmark_directx_11

71

277

passmark_directx_12

41

108

passmark_directx_9

143

320

passmark_g2d

764

1,305

passmark_g3d

9,638

29,137

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

15,787

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX 5070

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

6,144 +269.2%

Shaders

1,664

6,144 +269.2%

TMUs

104

192 +84.6%

ROPs

56

80 +42.9%

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2325 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2512 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

12,288 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

672.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

48 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

201.0 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

482.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

30.87 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

482.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

30.87 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

192

Power

TDP

148 W

250 W

TDP (W)

148

250 +68.9%

Suggested PSU

300 W

600 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GB205

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 50

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

31,100 million

Die Size

398 mm²

263 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

118.3M / 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

245 mm 9.6 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

115 mm 4.5 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 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 40

Successor

GeForce 10

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