The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G has 5888 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.77 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 20.84 TFLOPS.
The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 46 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card PNY GeForce GTX 970 is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 13 execution units.
Memory
Memory
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 970
Memory Size
8 GB
4 GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Clock
1.750 GHz
1.753 GHz
Memory Speed
14.0 Gbps
7.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
448 GB/s
224 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
256 bit
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The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.
The PNY GeForce GTX 970 has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 970
Base Clock
1.500 GHz
1.050 GHz
Boost Clock
1.770 GHz
1.178 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G has a turbo clock of 1.770 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PNY GeForce GTX 970 is 1.178 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 970
TDP
240 W
145 W
TDP (up)
250 W
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Tjunction max
93 °C
98 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
2 x 6-Pin
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The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 93 °C.
The PNY GeForce GTX 970 is equipped with a 2 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 970
Fan-Type
Axial
Radial
Fan 1
3 x 80 mm
1 x 65 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
0 dB
Noise (Load)
42-43 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.
The PNY GeForce GTX 970 is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 970
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.3
2.2
HDMI
2x HDMI 2.1
1x HDMI 2.0
DisplayPort
2x DP 1.4a
3x DP 1.2
DVI
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1
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The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.
The PNY GeForce GTX 970 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 970
Max. resolution
7680x4320
4096x2160
DirectX
12_2 (Ultimate)
12_1
Raytracing
Yes
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
No
LED
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion
No LED lighting
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The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).
The PNY GeForce GTX 970 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 970
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
No
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
Decode
No
AV1
Decode
No
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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
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G
PNY GeForce GTX 970
Length
282 mm
247 mm
Height
115 mm
112 mm
Width
41 mm
39 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle OC 8G is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the PNY GeForce GTX 970 is 41 mm and thus requires the space of 2 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.
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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