NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 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

1335 points

1446 points

8% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

20 FPS

22 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

16 FPS

18 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2160 points

2280 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.67 points

206.38 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13824 points

18285 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17483 points

20012 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17236 points

21753 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18039 points

19440 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19070 points

19602 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1046 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

924 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1085 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

86% significantly higher memory bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

75 W

206% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

34.72 Gigapixels/s

49.82 Gigapixels/s

43% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

138.9 Gigatexels/s

67% significantly higher texture rate

83.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.33 TFLOPS

25% slightly better floating point performance

2.66 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

20% slightly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

241st 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

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 770 vs GeForce GTX 970M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 770 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 770 has a slightly 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 770 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 770 at 230 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970M is better than the GeForce GTX 770.