GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MASTER 12G
vs
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 MINI OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MASTER 12G and the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 MINI OC, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MASTER 12G is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and has 7680 texture shaders and 60 execution units.

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 MINI OC is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, which has 1664 shaders and 13 execution units.
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MASTER 12G GPU GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 MINI OC
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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MASTER 12G has 12 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 504 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 MINI OC 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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MASTER 12G clocks in the base with up to 2.310 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 MINI OC is 1.101 GHz.

2.310 GHz Base Clock 1.101 GHz
2.670 GHz Boost Clock 1.241 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.22 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MASTER 12G is 285 W (Reference). The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 16-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 MINI OC 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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MASTER 12G has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 MINI OC has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 108 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MASTER 12G.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 MINI OC supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MASTER 12G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 MINI OC is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion 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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MASTER 12G is 342 mm long, 153 mm high and 71 mm wide.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 MINI OC is 168 mm long, 123 mm high and 36 mm wide.

342 mm Length 168 mm
153 mm Height 123 mm
71 mm Width 36 mm
4 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti MASTER 12G was released in Q1/2023 at a price of 799 $ (Reference).

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 MINI OC was introduced in Q4/2014 at a price of 329 $.

GV-N407TAORUS M-12GD Part-no GV-N970IXOC-4GD
Q1/2023 Release date Q4/2014
799 $ (Reference) Launch Price 329 $
5 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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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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