NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB 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

6249 points

332% significantly better overall score

1446 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

129 FPS

99 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

334% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2280 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

317% significantly higher Blender score

206.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

55628 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18285 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

206% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

20012 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

293% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

254% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19440 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

334% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19602 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

60% significantly higher core clock speed

924 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

52% significantly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

266% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

83% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

302% significantly higher memory bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

75 W

233% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

179% significantly higher pixel rate

49.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

326% significantly higher texture rate

83.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

326% significantly better floating point performance

2.66 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

180% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

180% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

83% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

238th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 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 1080 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.