NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1230MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q +326%

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1230 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

4608

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

48

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

177.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

11.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

177.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

GM204

GN21-X6

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

190 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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