NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 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
8076 points
257% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
206 FPS
159 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
101 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
139 FPS
108 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
80 FPS
52 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
3504.37 points
1108% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points
148511 points
473% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points
136008 points
366% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points
90751 points
166% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
118065 points
303% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
107903 points
233% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz
29% slightly higher core clock speed
810 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
1260 MHz
6% 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
512 GB/s
128% 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
121 Gigapixels/s
83% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s
292.3 Gigatexels/s
138% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS
18.71 TFLOPS
377% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664
7424
346% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104
232
123% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

56
96
71% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
55th 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 3080 Ti Laptop benchmarks

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

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 970.

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