GeForce GTX 970

GeForce GTX 970
  • Graphics Processor: GM204
  • Cores: 1664
  • TMUs / ROPs: 104 / 56

Review

Gaming
12
Workstation
21
AI/ML
11
Energy Efficiency
10
NanoReview Final Score
15
Compare GeForce GTX 970 with other GPUs

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
58
33
26
16
The Witcher 3
46
35
22
11
Counter-Strike 2
77
56
37
16
Far Cry 6
47
43
29
13
Hogwarts Legacy
25
22
15
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
38
32
21
15
Ghost of Tsushima
24
16
14
-
Cyberpunk 2077
27
21
13
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
49
44
27
14
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 43
1080p Ultra 34
1440p Ultra 23
4K Ultra 12
Margin of Error Low

Test in Benchmarks

Performance tests in graphics benchmarks and applications

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
3577
Time Spy 3665
Port Royal 4353
Fire Strike 12101
Wild Life Extreme 6976
Night Raid 47583
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
28989
Background Blur 77.1 img/sec
Face Detection 38.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.28 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.08 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.85 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 92.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2443 FPS
API OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
9636
G2D Mark 763
DirectX 11 71 FPS
DirectX 12 41 FPS
GPU Compute 4079 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5]53157 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
280.34
Sources: Blender [9]190 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
6791
GB6 ML Half Precision
6738
GB6 ML Quantized
5128
Image Classification (SP) 1852
Image Segmentation (HP) 3622
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8987
Face Detection (HP) 7074
Pose Estimation (Q) 43726
Text Classification (SP) 1446
Machine Translation (HP) 1576
Object Detection (SP) 2425
Depth Estimation (Q) 12902
Style Transfer (SP) 86714
Framework ONNX
Backend DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Detailed technical specifications of the GeForce GTX 970

General

Vendor Nvidia
Build Discrete
Released September 19, 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $329
Case Desktop
Purpose Gaming
Segment Mid-range
Architecture Maxwell 2.0
GPU Codename GM204
Successor - GeForce RTX 5070
Desktop GPU rating - 86th place

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1050 MHz
Boost Clock 1178 MHz
Shading Units 1664
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 104
Render Output Units (ROPs) 56
Compute Units (Pipelines) 13
Tensor Cores No
Ray-tracing Cores No
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 66 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 123 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
3.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 148 W
Manufacturing TSMC
Fabrication Process 28 nm
Die Size 398 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion
Transistor Density 12.56 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR5
Memory Size 4 GB
Memory Clock 1753 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 7000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit
ECC No
Memory Bandwidth
224.4 GB/s

API

DirectX 12
Vulkan 1.3
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 3.0
CUDA 5.2
Ray Tracing No
DLSS No
DisplayPort 1.2

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