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.
1080p Gaming
1440p Gaming
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
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Value at 1440p
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Value at 4K
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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
Compute & AI
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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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
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 / AVC | Supported | Supported |
| H.265 / HEVC | Not supported | Not supported |
| AV1 | Not supported | Not supported |
| VP9 | Not supported | Not 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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