NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 1130.95 significantly less expensive

$ 1499.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

16207 points

616% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

382 FPS

336 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

188 FPS

153 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

275 FPS

244 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

151 FPS

123 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

21929 points

501% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

6069.41 points

1993% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

260346 points

904% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

229738 points

688% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

141134 points

313% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

207329 points

608% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

187369 points

479% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1560 MHz

48% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1560 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

24 GiB

499% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

1008 GB/s

349% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

210% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

208.3 Gigapixels/s

215% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

625 Gigatexels/s

410% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

40 TFLOPS

920% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

10752

546% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

336

223% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

16th 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

GDDR6X

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 3090 Ti comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has a significantly 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 3090 Ti 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 970.