GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 vs GTX 970M SLI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking283not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.52no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameno dataGA102
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 October 2014 (11 years ago)21 October 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores25606144
Core clock speed924 MHz1575 MHz
Boost clock speed1038 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors2x 5200 Million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)162 Watt290 Watt
Texture fill rateno data339.8
Floating-point processing powerno data21.75 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data192
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Coresno data48
L1 Cacheno data6 MB
L2 Cacheno data4 MB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 12-pin
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount2x 6 GB8 GB
Memory bus width2x 192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data608.3 GB/s
Shared memory--
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA+8.6
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2014 21 October 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 162 Watt 290 Watt

GTX 970M SLI has 79% lower power consumption.

RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 970M SLI and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 970M SLI is a notebook graphics card while GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 is a desktop one.

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