NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 294.49

$ 74.51 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

8206 points

262% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

192 FPS

145 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

95 FPS

61 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

75 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3149 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

3690.41 points

1172% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

126840 points

333% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

120026 points

271% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

2280 MHz

117% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2497 MHz

111% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 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

Identical

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

119.9 Gigapixels/s

81% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

299.6 Gigatexels/s

144% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

3840

130% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

120

15% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

51st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

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 5060 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 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, both the GeForce GTX 970 and the GeForce RTX 5060 have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5060 over the GeForce GTX 970.