NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 4 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

2262 points

119% significantly better overall score

1029 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

23 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

12 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

117% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1673 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

84% significantly higher Blender score

157.20 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

10683 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

6570 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

13578 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

12985 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

11467 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14136 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

14394 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

1032 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

166% significantly higher pixel rate

24.77 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

23% slightly higher texture rate

99.07 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

64% significantly better floating point performance

2.38 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

44% significantly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

8% 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

262nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2016 November

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 760 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 760 in gaming.

Our database shows that 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 760 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 760.