NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M, 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

293% significantly better overall score

575 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

186% significantly higher Blender score

101.04 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9777 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10170 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

276% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9069 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

198% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9820 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

266% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8825 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

993 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

1124 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

679% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 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

266% significantly higher pixel rate

17.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

172% significantly higher texture rate

44.96 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

160% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

160% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

314th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 950M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950M in gaming.

Our database shows that 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 slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the GeForce GTX 950M.