NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2086 points

2262 points

8% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

51 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

35 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

28 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4894 points

34% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3647 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points

76% significantly higher Blender score

289.94 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

38193 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

25908 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29153 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34107 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

29277 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32348 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1178 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

61% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

65.97 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

44% significantly higher texture rate

122.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

44% significantly better floating point performance

3.92 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

23% slightly more shading units

1664

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

23% slightly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

204th of 586

193rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 970 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q.