Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2025 Sep 2014
Generation GeForce 50 GeForce 900
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 5.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 2407 MHz 1050 MHz
Boost Clock 2572 MHz 1178 MHz
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 256bit
Bandwidth 448.0GB/s 224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 36
Shading Units 4608 1664
TMUs 144 104
ROPs 48 56
Tensor Cores 144
RT Cores 36
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache 32 MB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 123.5 GPixel/s 65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 370.4 GTexel/s 122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 23.70 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 23.70 TFLOPS 3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 370.4 GFLOPS 122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GB206 GM204
GPU Variant GB206-300-A1 GM204-200-A1
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 5 nm 28 nm
Transistors 21.9 billion 5.2 billion
Die Size 181 mm² 398 mm²
Board Design
TDP 180W 148W
Suggested PSU 450 W 300 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
CUDA 12.0 5.2
Shader Model 6.8 6.4
Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy 15868 3646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme 7331 1683
Blender 4494 305