GeForce GTX 970
15D
Memory4 GB
Memory TypeGDDR5
Boost Clock1178 MHz
TGP148 W
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0
Launch Price$329
Benchmarks
Gaming12
Render21
TFLOPS (FP32)3.9
Geekbench OpenCL28,989
3DMarkTime Spy3665
Steel Nomad Lite Score3577
GB6 Compute Score28,989
G3D Mark Score9635
Blender GPU279.26
GB6 ML Single Precision6791
GB6 ML Half Precision6738
GB6 ML Quantized5128
FLOPS (FP32)3.9 TFLOPS
Memory Bandwidth224.4 GB/s
Full specifications
3D Mark
Time Spy
3665
Port Royal
4353
Fire Strike
12101
Wild Life Extreme
6976
Night Raid
47583
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Background Blur
77.1 img/sec
Face Detection
38.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection
1.28 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection
2.08 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur
1.85 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching
0.17 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching
92.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics
2443 FPS
API
OpenCL
Passmark Graphics
G2D Mark
763
DirectX 11
71 FPS
DirectX 12
41 FPS
GPU Compute
4080 Ops/s
GeekBench 6 ML
Image Classification (SP)
1852
Image Segmentation (HP)
3622
Image Super Resolution (Q)
8987
Face Detection (HP)
7074
Pose Estimation (Q)
43726
Text Classification (SP)
1446
Machine Translation (HP)
1576
Object Detection (SP)
2425
Depth Estimation (Q)
12902
Style Transfer (SP)
86714
Framework
ONNX
Backend
DirectML
General
Vendor
Nvidia
Build
Discrete
Released
September 19, 2014
Launch price (MSRP)
$329
Case
Desktop
Purpose
Gaming
Segment
Mid-range
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Codename
GM204
Successor
- GeForce RTX 5070
Graphics Processing Unit
Base Clock
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
Shading Units
1664
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs)
104
Render Output Units (ROPs)
56
Compute Units (Pipelines)
13
Tensor Cores
No
Ray-tracing Cores
No
L1 Cache
48KB per cluster
L2 Cache
2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle
2 IPC
Raw Performance
Pixel Fill Rate
66 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate
123 GTexel/s
Physical
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP
148 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
Fabrication Process
28 nm
Die Size
398 mm²
Transistor Count
5 billion
Transistor Density
12.56 MTr/mm²
Memory
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Size
4 GB
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Effective Memory Speed
7000 Mbps
Bus
256-bit
ECC
No
API
DirectX
12
Vulkan
1.3
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
CUDA
5.2
Ray Tracing
No
DLSS
No
DisplayPort
1.2
Specifications compiled from NanoReview. Last updated 2026-09-29.
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