GeForce GTX TITAN vs 970

older Released February, 2013

Nvidia GeForce GTX TITAN

836 MHz
6 GB GDDR5

7.5 Out of 10

In terms of clock speeds, the GeForce GTX Titan core doesn't get anywhere close to the 1 GHz mark, which is characteristic of every big chip from NVIDIA.

by techPowerUp! (Feb, 2013)

older Released September, 2014

Nvidia GeForce GTX 970

1.1 GHz
4 GB GDDR5

7.2 Out of 10

The card is also overclocked to a base clock of 1114 MHz out of the box.

by techPowerUp!

	Gaming

GeForce GTX TITAN 8.0 GeForce GTX 970 7.6 GeForce GTX 1060 n.d.
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more

	Graphics

GeForce GTX TITAN 8.7 GeForce GTX 970 6.5 GeForce GTX 1060 10.0
T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more

	Computing

GeForce GTX TITAN 6.9 GeForce GTX 970 7.6 GeForce GTX 1060 8.0
Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more

	Performance per Watt

GeForce GTX TITAN 7.7 GeForce GTX 970 8.0 GeForce GTX 1060 10.0
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

	Value

GeForce GTX TITAN 5.0 GeForce GTX 970 5.2 GeForce GTX 1060 n.d.
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

	Noise and Power

GeForce GTX TITAN 7.6 GeForce GTX 970 8.8 GeForce GTX 1060 9.1
TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more

7.5	Overall Score

GeForce GTX TITAN 7.5 GeForce GTX 970 7.2 GeForce GTX 1060 9.4

Winner
Nvidia GeForce GTX TITAN

GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX TITAN based on its benchmarks.

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Reasons to consider the
Nvidia GeForce GTX TITAN

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Much better 3DMark06 score

38,420

15,071

More than 2.5x better 3DMark06 score

Significantly higher memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Around 30% higher memory bandwidth

More memory

6,144 MB

4,096 MB

50% more memory

Many more texture mapping units

224

104

120 more texture mapping units

Higher texture rate

187.3 GTexel/s

109.2 GTexel/s

More than 70% higher texture rate

Much higher crysis 3 framerate

89.2 fps

50.6 fps

More than 75% higher crysis 3 framerate

Significantly better ocean surface simulation score

1,844.01 frames/s

1,203.9 frames/s

Around 55% better ocean surface simulation score

Significantly more shading units

2,688

1,664

1024 more shading units

Better floating-point performance

4,494 GFLOPS

3,494 GFLOPS

Around 30% better floating-point performance

Higher crysis 3 framerate

52.8

Around 35% higher crysis 3 framerate

Slightly wider memory bus

384 bit

256 bit

50% wider memory bus

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Higher clock speed

1,050 MHz

836 MHz

More than 25% higher clock speed

Higher effective memory clock speed

7,012 MHz

6,008 MHz

More than 15% higher effective memory clock speed

Slightly better PassMark score

8,563

7,881

Around 10% better PassMark score

Higher turbo clock speed

1,178 MHz

876 MHz

Around 35% higher turbo clock speed

Higher pixel rate

58.8 GPixel/s

46.8 GPixel/s

More than 25% higher pixel rate

More render output processors

8 more render output processors

Higher memory clock speed

1,753 MHz

1,502 MHz

More than 15% higher memory clock speed

Significantly lower TDP

148W

250W

More than 40% lower TDP

Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GTX TITAN

178.74 mHash/s

GeForce GTX 970

485.85 mHash/s

Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GTX TITAN

66.03 mPixels/s

GeForce GTX 970

102.43 mPixels/s

Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench

GeForce GTX TITAN

1,844.01 frames/s

GeForce GTX 970

1,203.9 frames/s

Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

GeForce GTX TITAN

75.41

GeForce GTX 970

72.7

Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

GeForce GTX TITAN

438.4

GeForce GTX 970

428.4

Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

GeForce GTX TITAN

22.82

GeForce GTX 970

22.23

Bioshock Infinite

GeForce GTX TITAN

140

GeForce GTX 970

112.8

Crysis 3

GeForce GTX TITAN

GeForce GTX 970

52.8

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