NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX350

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX350, 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

146% significantly better overall score

918 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

21 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

11 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

196% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1229 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

211% significantly higher Blender score

92.96 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

12572 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

13872 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

13882 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

13618 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

13257 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

747 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

25% slightly higher boost clock speed

937 MHz

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

300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

56.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

20 W

625% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

340% significantly higher pixel rate

14.99 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

308% significantly higher texture rate

29.98 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

108% significantly better floating point performance

1.88 TFLOPS

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

224% 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

269th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2020 February

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 MX350 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the GeForce MX350 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 slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce MX350 has a significantly lower TDP at 20 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 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 970 is better than the GeForce MX350.