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GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 3070

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 3070: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — GeForce RTX 3070 outperforms GeForce GTX 970 on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both GPUs to compare value. The better performing GeForce RTX 3070 is 2174 days newer than GeForce GTX 970.

Advantages of GeForce GTX 970

  • Consumes up to 33% less energy than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 - 148 vs 220 Watts

Advantages of GeForce RTX 3070

  • Performs up to 48% better in Grand Theft Auto V than GeForce GTX 970 - 136 vs 92 FPS
  • Up to 100% more VRAM memory than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 - 8 vs 4 GB
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Grand Theft Auto V

Grand Theft Auto V

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Ultra

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Logo
GeForce GTX 970

Desktop • Sep 19th, 2014


FPS

92

68%

Value, €/FPS

Price, €

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo
GeForce RTX 3070

Desktop • Sep 1st, 2020


FPS

136

100%

Value, €/FPS

€3.52/FPS

100%

Price, €

€479

100%

FPS and Value Winner

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With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Ultra

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Logo
GeForce GTX 970

Desktop • Sep 19th, 2014

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo
GeForce RTX 3070

Desktop • Sep 1st, 2020

Theoretical Performance

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Logo
GeForce GTX 970

Desktop • Sep 19th, 2014


Pixel Fillrate

65.97 GPixel/s

40%

Texel Fillrate

122.5 GTexel/s

39%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo
GeForce RTX 3070

Desktop • Sep 1st, 2020


Pixel Fillrate

165.6 GPixel/s

100%

Texel Fillrate

317.4 GTexel/s

100%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Logo

GeForce GTX 970

vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo

GeForce RTX 3070

Sep 19th, 2014Release Date
Sep 1st, 2020
GeForce 900GenerationGeForce 30
$329
MSRP$499
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortOutputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pinPower Connectors1x 12-pin
Desktop
Segment
Desktop
4 GBMemory
8 GB
GDDR5TypeGDDR6
256-bitBus256-bit
224.4 GB/sBandwidth
448 GB/s
1050 MHzBase Clock Speed
1500 MHz
1178 MHzBoost Clock Speed
1725 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock Speed1750 MHz

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