NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 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 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

4302 points

90% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

104 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

53 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

76 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

41 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

2581.07 points

790% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

75551 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

75827 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1455 MHz

38% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1755 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

96 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

50 W

190% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

140.4 Gigatexels/s

14% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

8.99 TFLOPS

129% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

2560

53% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

30% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

117th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2023 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 4050 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4050 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 4050 Laptop also has a significantly 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 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 970.