The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB is an older generation card without the bells and whistles of the RTX cards released in 2018. Still, the card is regarded as an amazing option for gaming. In terms of mining performance, the card is on the weaker side due to the low VRAM. Thus, you should try to mine other coins that do not require more than 4GB VRAM instead and convert them to your coin of choice. However, it is very difficult to get your hands on a GTX 970 4GB as card production has been discontinued and the world is currently going through a chip shortage.
For more information about the specifications, overclock settings and hashrates of the GTX 970 4GB, keep reading
Specifications:
NVIDIA CUDA® Cores: | 1664 |
Single Precision performance: | 3.92 TFLOPS |
Base Clock: | 1050 MHz |
Boost Clock: | 1178 MHz |
Memory Speed: | 7 Gbps |
Standard Memory Config: | 4 GB GDDR5 |
Memory Interface Width: | 256-bit |
Memory Bandwidth: | 224.4 GB/sec |
Maximum Digital Resolution: | 5120×3200 @60Hz |
Graphics Card Dimensions: | Height : 1.6″ – Length : 10.5″ – Width : 4.4” – Slot Width : Dual-slot |
Graphics Card Power: | 145 W |
Maximum GPU temperature: | 98 °C |
Recommended System Power: | 500 W |
System Interface: | PCI Express 3.0 x16 |
Power Connectors: | 2x 6-pin |
Display Connectors: | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB mining hashrate for each algorithm : [ Power Consumption 145 Watts/hr ]
DaggerHashimoto [ EtHash : (ETH) & (ETC) ] Ethereum Mining Hashrate: | 19.5 MH/s consuming 100 W, 21.6 MH/s consuming 167 W, 22 MH/s consuming 185 W |
Equihash Mining Hashrate: | 291.61 Sol/s |
KawPow Mining Hashrate: | 2 MH/s |
ZHash Mining Hashrate: | 28 Sol/s |
NeoScrypt Mining Hashrate: | 0.68 MH/s |
BeamV3 Mining Hashrate: | 5.5 Sol/s |
Lyra2REv2 Mining Hashrate: | 23.55 MH/s |
Decred Mining Hashrate: | 1.51 GH/s |
Lbry Mining Hashrate: | 0.16 GH/s |
Octopus Mining Hashrate: | 1.6 MH/s |
To get more out of your card, you can overclock it. You can try these settings below and adjust as required.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Overclock Settings
Core Voltage: | +12.5 mV |
Core clock: | +290 MHz |
Memory clock: | +495 MHz |
Power & temp target: | 120% |
The cards are not as recommended for mining as in the past due to the increasing Ethereum DAG size, albeit you can still try to mine other newer cryptos or coins with algorithms that do not require 4GB of VRAM. If you do have a GTX 970 in your possession, you can also opt to sell the card and get an easy 50+% profit margin. Here’s a video discussing this in more detail.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Mining Hashrate :
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