The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 13 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 is based on the Ampere architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.
Memory
Memory
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070
Memory Size
4 GB
8 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Clock
1.753 GHz
1.750 GHz
Memory Speed
7.0 Gbps
14.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
448 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
256 bit
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.
The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070
Base Clock
1.050 GHz
1.500 GHz
Boost Clock
1.178 GHz
1.755 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
--
1.73 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 has a turbo clock of 1.178 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 is 1.755 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070
TDP
145 W
220 W
TDP (up)
--
250 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
93 °C
PCIe-Power
2 x 6-Pin
2 x 8-Pin
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 has 2 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.
The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070
Fan-Type
Radial
Axial
Fan 1
1 x 65 mm
2 x 100 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
0 dB
Noise (Load)
--
43-45 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 are cooled with a Air cooling.
The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.3
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0
2x HDMI 2.1
DisplayPort
1x DP 1.2
3x DP 1.4a
DVI
2
--
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070
Max. resolution
4096x2160
7680x4320
DirectX
12_1
12_2 (Ultimate)
Raytracing
No
Yes
DLSS / FSR
No
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
ASUS Aura Sync
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
No
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
No
Decode
AV1
No
Decode
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This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.
Dimensions
Dimensions
EVGA GeForce GTX 970
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070
Length
241 mm
267 mm
Height
111 mm
135 mm
Width
--
52 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
3 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 is -- and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
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 ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 +343.6 %
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.
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.
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.
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.
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