NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 172.95 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

12174 points

438% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

289 FPS

242 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

141 FPS

107 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

206 FPS

175 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

114 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

3862 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

5402.96 points

1763% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

168368 points

475% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

158623 points

390% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

2190 MHz

108% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2430 MHz

106% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

360 GB/s

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

106% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

194% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

344% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

788% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

7168

330% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

224

115% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

42% many more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 4070 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 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 RTX 4070 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.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 970.