GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 200W)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 110% (2475MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
4224 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+643%
29150
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
46
1664
Shading Units
5888
104
TMUs
184
56
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
36 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
200W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
AD104
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
