GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce GTX 970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 970
GeForce GTX 1070
13916
GeForce GTX 970
9932
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce GTX 970
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GM204
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
September 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
2x 6-pins
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1050 MHz
CUDA cores
1920
1664
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
3,920 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
1664
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
145 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
98 °C
Texture fill rate
202.0
109 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
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 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
Ansel
+
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
3.0
2.0
VR Ready
+
-