NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 369.00
$ 402.89 significantly less expensive
$ 771.89

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
17144 points
657% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
402 FPS
355 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
200 FPS
165 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
293 FPS
261 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
163 FPS
135 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points
5582 points
53% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
7092.10 points
2346% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
223681 points
664% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
207590 points
541% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz
2340 MHz
122% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
2610 MHz
121% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

224.4 GB/s
672.3 GB/s
199% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W
96% significantly lower TDP
285 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s
250.6 Gigapixels/s
279% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s
689 Gigatexels/s
462% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664
8448
407% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104
264
153% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

56
96
71% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
13th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER beats the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming performance.

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

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