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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
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At a glance

Launch date
Architecture
Maxwell
CUDA cores
1,664
Memory
4 GB GDDR5
TGP
145 W

Hardware specifications

Compute

CUDA cores
1,664

Clocks

Base clock
1,050 MHz
Boost clock
1,178 MHz

Memory

Capacity
4 GB
Memory type
GDDR5
Bus width
256-bit
Bandwidth
224 GB/s

Power

TGP
145 W
Recommended PSU
500 W
Power connectors
2x 6-pin

Physical

Interface
PCI Express 3.0
Slots
2
Display connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Before you buy

Fit and power planning

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Published slot width
2 slots
TGP
145 W
Recommended PSU
500 W
Power connectors
2x 6-pin
Display connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

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Measured evidence

Market and rendering evidence

Historical launch pricing for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 preserves source terms such as USD, MSRP and SEP. It is shown separately from one workload-specific community benchmark.

Blender Cycles rendering

254.0 estimated samples per minute

Backend
OptiX
Confidence
Provisional
Submission count
17 submissions
Cohort
Blender 4.5.0 on Windows using OptiX across the standard Blender Benchmark scenes

This is a Cycles rendering community median in estimated samples per minute. It is not gaming FPS or an overall GPU rating.

Open Blender Open Data source

Retrieved

Open Blender Open Data methodology

Evidence record

Sources and verification

Specifications for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 were checked against the linked source material. Last verified .

NVIDIA Newsroom confirms that GTX 970 cards were available on 2014-09-18. NVIDIA's specification page publishes one 4 GB GDDR5 configuration, a 256-bit interface and 224 GB/sec. NVIDIA's later official explanation says the upper 512 MB is segmented with reduced bandwidth. The schema cannot encode that topology, so 224 remains only as NVIDIA's published headline value and no per-segment bandwidth is invented. NVIDIA publishes 145 W under Graphics Card Power (W); the structured field follows the repository NVIDIA convention and labels it TGP. Exact reference dimensions are 4.376 inches high, 10.5 inches long and Dual-width. Metric length and width remain absent because the reviewed first-party source does not publish them and this research does not calculate values. Dual-width is represented as two slots. The image context comes from a reviewed owner-supplied local ASUS manufacturer image and is not asserted by these specification sources.

Where to buy

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G

Part number: GTX 970 GAMING 4G

Linked variant: 4 GB GDDR5

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