Nvidia GeForce GTX 970

- Brand: Nvidia
- Cores: 1664
- Form Factor: PC use
- Use case: Gaming
- Announced: September, 19, 2014
Review
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
Benchmark Tests
Performance comparison across tasks for Nvidia GeForce GTX 970Benchmarks
| Background Blur | 77.1 frames/s |
| Face Detection | 38.1 frames/s |
| Horizon Detection | 1.28 Gpix/sec |
| Edge Detection | 2.08 Gpix/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.85 Gpix/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.17 Gpix/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 92.9 Gpix/sec |
| Particle Physics | 2443 fps |
| API | OpenCL |
| G2D Mark | 766 |
| DirectX 11 | 71 fps |
| DirectX 12 | 41 fps |
| GPU Compute | 4083 Ops/s |
| Aztec Ruins (Normal) | 275.6 fps |
| Car Chase | 273.9 fps |
| Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p) | 237.9 fps |
| T-Rex | 1112.2 fps |
| ALU 2 | 5981 fps |
| Driver Overhead 2 | 250.7 fps |
| API | OpenGL |
| OS | Windows |
| Tessellation | 1804.1 |
Tech Specs
Specs & test comparisonGeneral Info
| Manufacturer | Nvidia | |
| Build | Discrete | |
| Announced | September, 19, 2014 | |
| Form Factor | PC use | |
| Use case | Gaming | |
| Segment | Mid-range | |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | |
| Codename | GM204 | |
| Price | 329 | |
GPU
| GPU Frequency | 1050 MHz | |
| Boost GPU Frequency | 1178 MHz | |
| Shader Units | 1664 | |
| TMUs | 104 | |
| ROPs | 56 | |
| Execution Units | 13 | |
| Ray Tracing Cores | No | |
| Tensor Cores | No | |
| L1 cache | 48 KB/core | |
| L2 cache | 2000 KB/core | |
| Instructions per Clock | 2 IPC | |
Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 66 Gpix/sec | |
| Texture Fill Rate | 123 GTex/s | |
| FLOPS | 3.9 TFLOPS | |
Process
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| TGP | 148 W | |
| Process | TSMC | |
| Process tech. | 28 nm | |
| Transistor Size | 398 mm² | |
| Transistor count | 5 billion | |
| Transistor density | 12.56 MTr/mm² | |
Memory
| Interface | GDDR5 | |
| Memory Frequency | 1753 MHz | |
| Bus | 256 bit | |
| ECC support | No | |
| Effective Memory Speed | 7000 MB/s | |
| Memory Size | 4 GB | |
Max Throughput
API
| DirectX | 12 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| CUDA | 5.2 | |
| DisplayPort | 1.2 | |
| Ray Tracing | No | |
| DLSS | No | |
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