It appears that the GTX 970 is a more capable mid-range card that can play AAA titles at 1080p with 60 frames per second. With regards to max load temperature, the GTX 970 's cooling is excellent at keeping it cool and under control. This combination between GTX 970 and Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz has less than 8% bottleneck in many games and is perfect match to avoid FPS loss. This combination between GTX 970 and Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz is a perfect match to avoid FPS loss. With current 4096 MB RAM, the GTX 970 can have very few memory-related bottlenecks in more modern games.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | ||
Price | $ 449.0 | |
Year | 2014 | |
Maximum Recorded Temperature | 64C | |
Max Fan Noise | 47.5dB | |
Recommended Power Supply | 498W | |
Benchmark CPU | Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz ($284.99) | |
CPU Impact on FPS | + 0.0 FPS | |
CPU Impact on FPS % | 0.0% | |
Benchmark Quality Settings | Ultra Quality Settings | |
Average 1080p Performance | 62.2 FPS | |
Average 1440p Performance | 44.6 FPS | |
(Ultrawide) Average 1440p Performance | 38.5 FPS | |
Average 4K Performance | 27.4 FPS | |
Memory | 4 GB | |
1080p Cost Per Frame | $ 5.3 | |
1440p Cost Per Frame | $ 7.4 | |
(Ultrawide) 1440p Cost Per Frame | $ 8.6 | |
4K Cost Per Frame | $ 12.0 | |
Series | GTX 970 | |
Variant | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | |
Overall Combination Score | 65/100 | Good |
Board Number | PG401 |
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Length | 10.5 inches 267 mm |
Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort |
Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin |
Slot Width | Dual-slot |
TDP | 148 W |
Boost Clock | 1178 MHz |
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GPU Clock | 1050 MHz |
Memory Clock | 1753 MHz 7012 MHz effective |
Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
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Generation | GeForce 900 |
Launch Price | 329 USD |
Production | End-of-life |
Release Date | Sep 19th, 2014 |
CUDA | 5.2 |
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DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) |
OpenCL | 1.2 |
OpenGL | 4.6 |
Shader Model | 6.1 |
Vulkan | 1.1.82 |
Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 |
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Die Size | 398 mm² |
GPU Name | GM204 |
GPU Variant | GM204-200-A1 |
Process Size | 28 nm |
Transistors | 5,200 million |
Bandwidth | 224.4 GB/s |
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Memory Bus | 256 bit |
Memory Size | 4096 MB |
Memory Type | GDDR5 |
ROPs | 56 |
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SMM Count | 13 |
Shading Units | 1664 |
TMUs | 104 |
FP32 (float) performance | 3,920 GFLOPS |
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FP64 (double) performance | 122.5 GFLOPS (1:32) |
Pixel Rate | 65.97 GPixel/s |
Texture Rate | 122.5 GTexel/s |