NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2272 points

7964 points

250% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

186 FPS

139 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

95 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

133 FPS

102 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

75 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

3279.67 points

1031% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

138398 points

434% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

125425 points

330% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

91922 points

169% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

113801 points

288% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

103840 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1110 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1545 MHz

31% 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

148.3 Gigapixels/s

124% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

296.6 Gigatexels/s

142% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

18.98 TFLOPS

384% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

6144

269% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

192

84% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

71% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

195th of 597

55th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2021 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 3080 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop 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 RTX 3080 Laptop 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 RTX 3080 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 115 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 RTX 3080 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 970.