NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points
1446 points
1095% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

3 FPS
30 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS
22 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
19 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
18 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2317 points
18285 points
689% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2654 points
20012 points
654% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2548 points
21753 points
753% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2712 points
19440 points
616% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2641 points
19602 points
642% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s
120.3 GB/s
317% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W
15% slightly lower TDP
75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

3.24 Gigapixels/s
49.82 Gigapixels/s
1437% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

12.96 Gigatexels/s
83.04 Gigatexels/s
540% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

96
1280
1233% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

16
80
400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

4
48
1100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

485th of 586
238th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

GeForce GT 630 vs GeForce GTX 970M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970M graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 630 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 630 has a slightly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970M at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970M is better than the GeForce GT 630.

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