NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Benchmark and Specs

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 has 13 execution units with 1664 shaders. This gives the graphics card a theoretical FP32 computing power of 3.92 TFLOPS.

Based on

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GPU Chip

GM204-200-A1 (Maxwell 2.0)

Streaming Multiprocessors

13

Shader

1664

Render Output Units

56

Texture Units

104

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is equipped with 4 GB graphics memory of the type GDDR5. The memory clock of the graphics card is 1.753 GHz and the speed is 7.01 Gbps.

Memory Size

4 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Clock

1.753 GHz

Memory Speed

7.0 Gbps

Memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

Memory Interface

256 bit

The base frequency of this graphics card is 1.050 GHz and the manufacturer specifies the maximum turbo clock as 1.178 GHz. If supported (see below), the performance can be further increased by overclocking.

Base Clock

1.050 GHz

Boost Clock

1.178 GHz

Overclocking

Yes

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is powered by 2 x 6-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 145 W.

TDP

145 W-2 %

Tjunction max

98 °C

PCIe-Power

2 x 6-Pin

Graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 are cooled by a Air cooling.

Fan-Type

Radial

Fan 1

1 x 65 mm

Cooler-Type

Air cooling

Noise (Idle)

0 dB / Silent

Up to 4 monitors can be operated with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970.

Max. Displays

4

HDCP

2.2

HDMI

1x HDMI 2.0

DisplayPort

3x DP 1.2

DVI

1

With the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 it is possible to operate a screen with a resolution of up to 4096x2160 pixels. Furthermore, the DirectX standard version 12_1 is supported.

Max. resolution

4096x2160

DirectX

12_1

Raytracing

No

DLSS / FSR

No

LED

No LED lighting

This area lists the video codecs that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 can decode or encode in hardware in order to minimize the processor load, which leads to lower power consumption.

h264

Decode / Encode

h265 / HEVC

No

VP8

Decode

VP9

No

AV1

No

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in a case. It is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and 40 mm wide.

Length

267 mm

Height

111 mm

Width

40 mm

Width (Slots)

2 PCIe-Slots

SFF-Ready

No

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 was released in Q3/2014 at a price of 299 $. The graphics card manufactured in 28 nm is connected to the system via PCIe 3 x 16 lanes.

GPU Interface

PCIe 3 x 16

Release date

Q3/2014

Launch Price

299 $

Structure size

28 nm

Documents

data sheet