Averages 22 FPS at 1440p over our 9-game suite, anchored estimate · 1080p gaming, 1440p is a stretch outside older titles
22 Avg FPS Includes estimates
Nothing here is a measurement of this card. It is an anchored estimate built from the cards we have run ourselves, on the identical suite. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 averages 22 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 39 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 7 FPS, a 5.6x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means 1080p gaming, 1440p is a stretch outside older titles. Under load we logged a peak of 139W against the 145W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 17 FPS | 14 | 3.22 GB | 138 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 20 FPS | 16 | 3.22 GB | 135 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 7 FPS | 6 | 3.22 GB | 133 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 28 FPS | 23 | 3.22 GB | 139 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 29 FPS | 19 | 3.22 GB | 138 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 39 FPS | 21 | 3.22 GB | 116 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 24 FPS | 18 | 3.22 GB | 136 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 21 FPS | 16 | 3.22 GB | 125 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 16 FPS | 13 | 3.22 GB | 138 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Maxwell (GM204) |
| CUDA cores | 1,664 |
| VRAM | 4GB (3.5GB + 0.5GB reservation) GDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 224 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,178 MHz |
| TDP | 145 W |
| Process | 28nm |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2014-09-18 |
| Launch MSRP | $329 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 averages 22 FPS at 1440p on our suite. Nothing here is a measurement of this card. It is an anchored estimate built from the cards we have run ourselves, on the identical suite.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #79 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Radeon RX 6400 | 123% | 27 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super | 118% | 26 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 | 118% | 26 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB | 109% | 24 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | 100% | 22 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 | 91% | 20 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti | 86% | 19 | |
| GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | 73% | 16 |
| Transistors | 5,200 million |
| Die size | 398 mm² |
| Fabricated by | TSMC |
| Transistor density | 13.1 million per mm² |
Denser than 1% of the 76 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.