NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M 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

2262 points

335% significantly better overall score

519 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

7 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

7 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

155% significantly higher Blender score

113.57 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

294% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

6572 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

4147 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

342% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6585 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

294% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

3448 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

242% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

8556 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

47% significantly higher boost clock speed

797 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

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

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

75 W

93% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

313% significantly higher pixel rate

15.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

92% significantly higher texture rate

63.76 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

156% significantly better floating point performance

1.53 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

73% significantly more shading units

960

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

30% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

323rd 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 770M specs and performance

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 970 has slightly more memory with 4 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 770M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 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 970 is better than the GeForce GTX 770M.