77% of GPUs from surveyed systems match or beat the GeForce GTX 970
Steam Hardware Survey, October 2026
- As fast or faster
- 76.9%
- Uncertain
- 7.2%
- Slower
- 15.8%
- Share of GPUs from surveyed systems
- 0.2%
- Performance
- Tier 23 of 55
- Type
- Desktop
Supported features
- Ray tracing Not supported
- Upscaling
Limited
- FSR 1 (spatial) · compatible
- FSR 2/3 upscaling (temporal) · compatible
- XeSS Super Resolution · compatible
- NVIDIA Image Scaling (driver)
- Frame generation Not supported
- Mesh shaders Not supported
- DirectX 12 Ultimate
Not supported
Feature level 12_1 · Shader Model 6.8 · Vulkan 1.4
Maxwell (2nd generation) architecture · Feature support across GPUs