NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 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

3839 points

69% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

76 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

58 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

52 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

47 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

5794 points

58% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

536.77 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

36268 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

19520 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

40025 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

54616 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

19520 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

43854 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

47793 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1076 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

1076 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

72% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

103.3 Gigapixels/s

56% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

189.4 Gigatexels/s

54% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

6.06 TFLOPS

54% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

2816

69% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

176

69% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

71% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

127th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 970 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 970.