NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon 860M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon 860M, 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
4% slightly better overall score
2160 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
50 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
42 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
45% significantly higher Blender score
199.69 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
24248 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
32614 points
0.82% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
197th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon 860M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon 860M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon 860M is better than the GeForce GTX 970.

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