NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 108% (2452MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (896.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
7296 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
+1020%
43.94 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
+657%
27607
GeForce GTX 970
3646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
+703%
13531
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Graphics Card
Feb 2025
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2295 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
2452 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
896.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
70
SM Count
-
8960
Shading Units
1664
280
TMUs
104
96
ROPs
56
280
Tensor Cores
-
70
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
235.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
686.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
43.94 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
43.94 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
686.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
148W
700 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GB203
GPU Name
GM204
GB203-300-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
45.6 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
378 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
12.0
CUDA
5.2
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
