NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The GeForce GTX 970 is a graphics card by NVIDIA, built on the 28 nm process and based on the GM204 graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name

GM204

Model number

GM204-200-A1

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date

Sep 19th, 2014

Family

GeForce 900

Production

End-of-life

Launch Price

329 USD

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture fillrate

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (float) performance

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (double) performance

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective

Render Config

Shading Units

1664

TMUs

104

ROPs

56

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

Board Design

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm
10.5 inches

Width

111 mm
4.4 inches

Height

40 mm
1.6 inches

Thermal design power (TDP)

148 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

Display Connectors

1x DVI
1x HDMI
3x DisplayPort

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Board Number

PG401

API support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

3.0

Vulkan

1.1

Shader Model

6.4

CUDA

5.2