NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

1664

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 970

N/A Sep 2014 View Details

VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

5888

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 3070

$520.00 Aug 2020 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GeForce GTX 970

$329 • Sep 2014

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

$499 • Aug 2020

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
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Specs Comparison

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce GTX 970NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
4 GB8 GB
GDDR5GDDR6
148 W 220 W
N/AN/A
1178 MHz1725 MHz
224.4 GB/s448 GB/s
28nm8nm
Maxwell 2.0Ampere
16645888
N/A46
104184
5696
256-bit256-bit
1753 MHz 1750 MHz
65.97 GPixel/s165.6 GPixel/s
224.4 GTexel/s448 GTexel/s
3.92 GFLOPS20.31 GFLOPS
2.00 MB4.00 MB
398 mm²392 mm²
5200 Million17400 Million
300 W 550 W
2x 6-pin1x 12-pin
PCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
12.112.2
1.31.3
4.64.6
TSMCSamsung

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Background
3DMark

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

3574

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

14126 (+295%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Geekbench Background
Geekbench

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

28989

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

126195 (+335%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

GFXBench Background
GFXBench

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

46.8 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

170.2 FPS (+264%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Passmark Background
Passmark

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

9637

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

22256 (+131%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Game Benchmarks Comparison

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Wins!

Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks

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GeForce GTX 970
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Wins
GeForce RTX 3070
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA • 4GB GDDR5

0
Wins
0%
Win Rate
3574
3DMark
28989
Geekbench
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA • 8GB GDDR6

4
Wins
100%
Win Rate
14126
3DMark
126195
Geekbench

Where to Buy

Newegg
GeForce RTX 3070
$520.00 Buy Now
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GeForce RTX 3070
$847.00 Buy Now

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VS
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2014 4GB GDDR5 $329
VS
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