NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop, 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 3070 Ti Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2272 points

4988 points

119% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

125 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

63 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

86 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

48 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

3130.63 points

979% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

141168 points

444% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

119528 points

310% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

82032 points

140% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

106421 points

263% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

100291 points

210% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1410 MHz

19% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

448 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

115 W

26% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

112.8 Gigapixels/s

70% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

248.2 Gigatexels/s

102% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

15.88 TFLOPS

305% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

5632

238% 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

42% many more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

194th of 597

102nd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2022 January

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 3070 Ti Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970 in our tests.

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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop 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 RTX 3070 Ti Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 115 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 970.