NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

22 %

26 %

18% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

45 FPS

63 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

45 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

25 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

308.84

1150.76

272% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908

58544

125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153

55123

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107

47251

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24099

51252

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31442

53107

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1238 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

27% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

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

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192 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

95% significantly higher pixel rate

33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

81% significantly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

4.33 TFLOPS

10% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

2048

23% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

62% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

109th of 549

92nd of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

September 2014

May 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 RTX 3050 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 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 RTX 3050 Laptop 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 970.