NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 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
13880 points
513% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
317 FPS
271 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
173 FPS
138 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
239 FPS
208 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
136 FPS
108 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
6555.01 points
2160% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
179169 points
511% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
164101 points
407% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz
7% slightly higher core clock speed
975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
1500 MHz
27% 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
896 GB/s
299% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W
80 W
81% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s
144 Gigapixels/s
118% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s
360 Gigatexels/s
193% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664
7680
361% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104
240
130% 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
26th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR7

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 5080 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 970.

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