NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR5

Memory

1920

Cores

256.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1070

N/A Jun 2016 View Details

nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

1664

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 970

N/A Sep 2014 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

8GB GDDR5 150W N/A Jun 2016

GeForce GTX 1070

$379 • Jun 2016

GeForce GTX 970

$329 • Sep 2014

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

4GB GDDR5 148W N/A Sep 2014

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Memory Size	8 GB	4 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
TDP	150 W	148 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1683 MHz	1178 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	256.3 GB/s	224.4 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	28nm
Architecture	Pascal	Maxwell 2.0
Shading Units	1920	1664
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	120	104
ROPs	64	56
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	2002 MHz	1753 MHz
Pixel Rate	107.7 GPixel/s	65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	256.3 GTexel/s	224.4 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	6.463 GFLOPS	3.92 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	314 mm²	398 mm²
Transistors	7200 Million	5200 Million
Required PSU	450 W	300 W
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.1
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

5844 (+64%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

3574

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

53429 (+84%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

28989

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

75.4 FPS (+61%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

46.8 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

13504 (+40%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

9637

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Game Benchmarks Comparison (252 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+31%)

AVG 158 FPS

MIN 144 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+32%)

AVG 128 FPS

MIN 116 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+76%)

AVG 88 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+31%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 92 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+59%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+58%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+77%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+74%)

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+59%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+66%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 108 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+64%)

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+71%)

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+53%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 112 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+56%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+38%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+71%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+67%)

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+65%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Wins!

Based on 249 benchmarks across 84 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

+58.2%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 970