GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile and GeForce GTX 970 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile
GeForce GTX 970
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104 SLI
GM204
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
September 2014
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 6-pins
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1645 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
1443 MHz
1050 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1664
Floating-point performance
-
3,920 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
14400 Million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
1664
Power consumption (TDP)
-
145 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
-
109 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12_1
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
VR Ready
+
-