NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150, 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

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

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 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

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

268% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

990 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

236% significantly higher Blender score

86.10 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9799 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

178% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10459 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

245% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9867 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10175 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

244% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9382 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1469 MHz

39% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1532 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

366% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

25 W

480% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

169% significantly higher pixel rate

24.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

233% significantly higher texture rate

36.77 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

333% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

333% 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

305th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2017 May

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce MX150 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970 beats the GeForce MX150 in gaming performance.

The GeForce MX150 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 MX150 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce MX150 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the GeForce MX150.