NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 197.99 significantly less expensive

$ 566.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2272 points

13240 points

482% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

310 FPS

263 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

156 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

229 FPS

197 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

125 FPS

97 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

5256 points

44% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

6174.82 points

2029% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

188870 points

545% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

181089 points

459% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

2325 MHz

121% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2512 MHz

113% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

672 GB/s

199% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

72% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

201 Gigapixels/s

204% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

482.3 Gigatexels/s

293% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

6144

269% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

192

84% 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

195th of 597

27th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

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 5070 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 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 5070 at 250 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 RTX 5070 over the GeForce GTX 970.