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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
4988 points
120% 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

35 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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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
3130.63 points
979% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points
141168 points
444% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points
119528 points
310% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points
82032 points
140% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
106421 points
263% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) 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

56
80
42% many more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
101st of 586

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
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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 970.

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