NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Benchmark and Specs

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 GPU benchmark, specs and release date - 4 GB NVIDIA Graphics card rating. How good is the GeForce GTX 970 for gaming?

Benchmark Score

22 %
Average score from 32 samples
Low uncertainty
Performance
Average
Ranking
109th of 549
Popularity
21st of 549
Samples
32 benchmarks

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GPU Comparison

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more GPUs with our GPU Comparison Tool.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
65 %
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
54 %
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
51 %
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
50 %
AMD Radeon RX 6600
43 %
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
35 %
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
22 %

GPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this graphics card in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks. All tests were performed at 1920 x 1080 resolution.

Flux Core

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

94 FPS average
67 FPS 10% low
62 FPS 1% low

Electron

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS average
69 FPS 10% low
66 FPS 1% low

City

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS average
51 FPS 10% low
47 FPS 1% low

Clouds

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

58 FPS average
55 FPS 10% low
50 FPS 1% low

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

3DMark Graphics

3DMark Graphics

High-end graphics benchmark

3,642
Blender

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

309
Geekbench 5 (CUDA)

Geekbench 5 (CUDA)

CUDA compute benchmark

25,908
Geekbench 5 (Metal)

Geekbench 5 (Metal)

Metal compute benchmark

13,595
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL)

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL)

OpenCL compute benchmark

29,153
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan)

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan)

Vulkan compute benchmark

34,107
Geekbench 6 (Metal)

Geekbench 6 (Metal)

Metal compute benchmark

13,595
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL)

OpenCL compute benchmark

24,099
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan)

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan)

Vulkan compute benchmark

31,442

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Specifications

Core Clock 1050 MHz
Boost Clock 1178 MHz
Memory Type GDDR5
Memory Size 4 GiB
Bus Width 256 bit
Memory Bandwidth 219.14 GB/s
TDP 145 W
Floating Point Performance 3.92 TFLOP/s
Release Date 2014-09-19
PCIe Revision 3
DirectX Support 12
OpenGL Support 4.5
Pixel Rate 65.97 Gigapixels/s
Texture Rate 122.5 Gigatexels/s
Shading Units 1664
Texture Mapping Units 104
Render Output Processors 56

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

The GeForce GTX 970 is a GPU from NVIDIA released in 2014. This chip has an average gaming score at 22% in our GPU benchmark.

The GeForce GTX 970 has 4 GiB of GDDR5 memory, with a total memory bandwidth of 219 GB/s. The memory bus has a width of 256 bits. If you plan on gaming at higher resolutions with higher quality textures, more memory is important. Without enough memory, performance will be degraded.

In terms of clock speed, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU core runs at a frequency of 1050 MHz and if power and temperature permits, it can boost up to 1178 MHz. The clock runs at a speed called the clock speed. It dictates the number of updates per second that the GPU can process. Overclocking a chip, which means increasing the clock speed will improve the performance. However, thermals and power efficiency may be diminished.

As for rendering API support, the GeForce GTX 970 supports up to DirectX 12. In addition, in cross-platform titles, OpenGL 4.5 features are supported. Newer APIs are usually more efficient, allowing for better performance in games and better graphical effects.

This chip has a Thermal Design Power of 145W: the total amount of waste heat generated. A card that runs hotter will need better cooling and will draw more power from the wall.

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