Nvidia

GeForce GTX 970

The GeForce GTX 970 is Nvidia’s 4GB graphics card with a 148W board power rating, built on the Maxwell GM204 architecture. Below you’ll find its full spec sheet and gaming and productivity benchmarks. No board versions are in stock right now, but the specs and benchmarks below still apply whenever it returns to retailers.

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Gaming performance

Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Render and synthetic scores are in the Benchmarks section below.

GeForce GTX 970Top GPU
13.0
100.0

1080p Gaming

100.0

1440p Gaming

100.0

4K Gaming

The GeForce GTX 970 scores 13.0 at 1080p, 0.0 at 1440p, and 0.0 at 4K on a scale where 100 = the fastest GPU we test (RTX 5090). These scores apply to all board versions of this chip.

Performance-per-dollar rank among all GPUs with live pricing

Value at 1080p

Value at 1440p

Value at 4K

Benchmarks

Standardized benchmark scores for this chip, each compared to the fastest card we track and linked to its source. They apply to every board version.

3D & gaming

3DMark Fire Strike Graphicstechnical.city
GeForce GTX 97011,954 points
GeForce RTX 4090 (best)75,641 points
3DMark Steel NomadUL 3DMark
GeForce GTX 970328 points
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)14,544 points
GeForce GTX 9709,637 G3D Mark
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)38,974 G3D Mark

Compute & AI

Geekbench 7 OpenCLGeekbench Browser
GeForce GTX 97029,674 points
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)337,912 points

GeForce GTX 970 availability

Live retailer stock for this model.

Currently out of stock

None of the board versions of the GeForce GTX 970 are in stock at the retailers we track right now. Prices refresh daily, so check back — or compare in-stock alternatives below.

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Specifications

The reference GeForce GTX 970 measures 267 mm long.

Performance

Boost clock
1178 MHz
Base clock
1050 MHz
Shader cores
1,664
SM count
13
Texture units (TMUs)
104
Render outputs (ROPs)
56
RT cores
0

Memory

VRAM
4GB GDDR5
Memory bus
256-bit
Bandwidth
224 GB/s
Memory speed
7 Gbps
L2 cache
1.8 MB

GPU die

Architecture
Maxwell GM204
Process node
TSMC 28nm
Foundry
TSMC
Die size
398 mm²
Transistors
5.2 billion
Generation
GeForce GTX 900

Power

TDP
148W
Recommended PSU
500W
Power connectors
2 6-pin

Display & outputs

Max resolution
5120 × 3200
Max displays
4
HDCP
2.2
Outputs
1 HDMI 2.0, 3 Displayport 1.2, 1 DVI
PCIe interface
PCIe 3.0 ×16

APIs & software

DirectX
12 (12_1)
Vulkan
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
CUDA
Compute 5.2
Shader model
6.5

Video encoding & decoding

CodecEncodeDecode
H.264 / AVCSupportedSupported
H.265 / HEVCNot supportedNot supported
AV1Not supportedNot supported
VP9Not supportedNot supported

Encoder: NVENC 5th gen · Decoder: NVDEC 2nd gen

Features

Resizable BAR
No
Multi-GPU
SLI

Physical

Reference length
267 mm
Slot width
2 slots
Released
2014-09-19
MSRP
$329.00

1,664 shader cores feed a 256-bit memory interface delivering 224 GB/s of peak bandwidth. Compare the GeForce GTX 970 against the full GPU lineup on the GPU comparison table.

Across generations

Where the GeForce GTX 970 sits in Nvidia’s lineup — the generation before and after.

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