ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB
vs
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DC Mini


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB and the ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DC Mini, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and has 7680 texture shaders and 60 execution units.

ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DC Mini is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, which has 1664 shaders and 13 execution units.
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB GPU ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DC Mini
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
AD104-400-A1 GPU Chip GM204-200-A1
Ada Lovelace Architecture Maxwell 2.0
60 Streaming Multiprocessors 13
7680 Shader 1664
80 Render Output Units 56
240 Texture Units 104
60 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB has 12 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 504 GB/s.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DC Mini can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

12 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR5
1.313 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
21.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
504 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB clocks in the base with up to 2.310 GHz. The base frequency of the ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DC Mini is 1.088 GHz.

2.310 GHz Base Clock 1.088 GHz
2.640 GHz Boost Clock 1.228 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB is 285 W (Reference). The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 16-Pin connector.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DC Mini has a TDP of 145 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

285 W (Reference) TDP 145 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DC Mini has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 85 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DC Mini supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 1x DP v1.2
-- DVI Ports 2
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DC Mini is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
ASUS Aura Sync LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB is 336 mm long, 150 mm high and 63 mm wide.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DC Mini is 170 mm long, 122 mm high and 41 mm wide.

336 mm Length 170 mm
150 mm Height 122 mm
63 mm Width 41 mm
4 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB was released in Q1/2023 at a price of 799 $ (Reference).

The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DC Mini was introduced in Q4/2014 at a price of 329 $.

-- Part-no GTX970-DCMOC-4GD5
Q1/2023 Release date Q4/2014
799 $ (Reference) Launch Price 329 $
5 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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