NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 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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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 49.00 slightly less expensive

$ 369.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

61% significantly better overall score

2262 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

35 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

28 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

65% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3647 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

92% significantly higher Blender score

289.94 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

25908 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

13595 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29153 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34107 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

13595 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

29277 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32348 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

42% significantly 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

150 W

145 W

3% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

63% significantly higher pixel rate

65.97 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

64% significantly higher texture rate

122.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

64% significantly better floating point performance

3.92 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

15% slightly more shading units

1664

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

15% 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

134th of 586

193rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 970 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1070 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1070 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 970 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 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 1070 over the GeForce GTX 970.