GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME
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GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME Benchmark and Specs

Here you will find all technical data as well as various benchmarks of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME. Up to 4 screens with a maximum resolution of up to 4096x2160 can be operated with this graphics card. The maximum turbo clock of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME is 1.367 GHz, so the graphics card achieves an FP32 computing power of 4.55 TFLOPS.
FP32
4.55TFLOPS
Boost Clock
1.37GHz
Memory
4GB GDDR5
TDP
145 W

Technical details

GPU

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME is equipped with 13 execution and 1664 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 4.55 TFLOPS is achieved.

GPU Chip
GM204-200-A1 (Maxwell 2.0)
Streaming Multiprocessors
13
Shader
1664
Render Output Units
56
Texture Units
104

Memory

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME has a 256 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 227 GB/s is achieved. In total, 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory is available for the graphics card.

Memory Size
4 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Clock
1.775 GHz
Memory Speed
7.1 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
227 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit

Clock Speeds

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME with 1.215 GHz (base clock) or with 1.367 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock
1.215 GHz+16 %
Boost Clock
1.367 GHz+16 %
Avg (Game) Clock
1.342 GHz
Overclocking
Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME has 2 x 8-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

TDP
145 W-2 %
Tjunction max
98 °C
PCIe-Power
2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME is equipped with 3 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type
Axial
Fan 1
3 x 80 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB / Silent

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.2 version.

Max. Displays
4
HDCP
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.2
DVI
1

Featureset

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME supports a maximum resolution of 4096x2160 pixels and the DirectX standard version 12_1.

Max. resolution
4096x2160
DirectX
12_1
Raytracing
No
DLSS / FSR
No
LED
Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.

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

Dimensions

The dimensions of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME are 279 mm in length, 121 mm in height and 42 mm in width. Thus 2 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length
279 mm
Height
121 mm
Width
42 mm
Width (Slots)
2 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready
No

Additional data

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME is manufactured in a structure width of 28 nm and has a PCIe 3 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q4/2015.

GPU Interface
PCIe 3 x 16
Release date
Q4/2015
Launch Price
329 $
Structure size
28 nm
Part-no
GV-N970XTREME-4GD
Documents
data sheet
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME
1.215 GHz · 4 GB · 145 W TDP
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Benchmark results

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 Rank 4,752 / 5,255

  1. GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREMEGIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME4 GB GDDR5
    31,031
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970Average of gpu group
    28,861

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 4,480 / 5,233

  1. GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREMEGIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 XTREME4 GB GDDR5
    36,963
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970Average of gpu group
    33,683

MonkeyBench 2026.3 · browser GPU test

Average of 43 public MonkeyBench results (WebGPU) for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970.

105GPU points (Ø)
Rank 222 / 537 · in the MonkeyBench GPU ranking

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