NVIDIA · Maxwell (derived from codename prefix) · 2014
GeForce GTX 970
GeForce GTX 970: 4 GB GDDR5, 148 W, 1,664 CUDA cores. Launched September 19, 2014 at $329.
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Power
- 148 W
- Bus width
- 256 bit
Memory4 GB
31 of 143 in GeForce GTX
Power148 W
72 of 154 by higher draw in GeForce GTX
CUDA cores1,664
22 of 158 in GeForce GTX
Launch price$329
44 of 92 in GeForce GTX
Current market
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Specifications
Memory
- Capacity
- 4 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 256 bit
- Memory clock
- 1,753 MHz
- Bandwidth
- 224.4 GB/s
Compute
- CUDA cores
- 1,664
- SM count
- 13
- TMUs
- 104
- ROPs
- 56
- FP32
- 3,494.4 GFLOPS
- FP64
- 109.2 GFLOPS
- Pixel fill rate
- 58.8 GP/s
- Texture fill rate
- 109.2 GT/s
Clocks
- Boost clock
- 1,050 MHz
Board
- TDP
- 148 W
- External power required
- Yes
- Form factor
- desktop
- Launch MSRP
- 329 USD
Physical
- Architecture
- Maxwell (derived from codename prefix)
- Codename
- GM204-200-A1
- Transistors
- 5.2 billion
- Die size
- 398 mm²
- Series
- GeForce GTX
- Launch date
- September 19, 2014
Not recorded by the source: generation, process, base clock and bus interface.
Die figure
Silicon, made visible
Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.
Catalog context
Within its series, the GeForce GTX 970 ranks 37th of 121 for FP32 throughput and 31st of 143 for memory capacity. Its 148 W TDP is above the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.
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