NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Jun 2022
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 16
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1785 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
64bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
96.00GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
512
TMUs
104
32
ROPs
56
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
SM Count
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8
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
28.56 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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3.656 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
TU117
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
TU117-150-KA-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
4.7 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
75W
Suggested PSU
300 W
250 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
7.5
Shader Model
6.4
6.8
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
2,100
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
953
OctaneBench
77
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
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Blender
305
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.