NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 369.00

$ 884.25 significantly less expensive

$ 1253.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

264% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

98% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1841 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

184.30 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11969 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7421 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14780 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14358 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

6454 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15314 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16269 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

17% slightly lower TDP

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

140% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

109.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

48% significantly better floating point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

23% slightly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

112

7% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

307th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 670 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 670 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970 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 970 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 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 970 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 670 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the GeForce GTX 670.