NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 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

2485 points

9% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

62 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

30 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

43 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

1140.23 points

293% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

48617 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

46592 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

66% significantly higher core clock speed

630 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1140 MHz

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

27% slightly higher memory bandwidth

176 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

60 W

141% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

20% slightly higher pixel rate

54.72 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

67% significantly higher texture rate

72.96 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

4.67 TFLOPS

19% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

2048

23% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

62% significantly 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

178th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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 RTX A1000 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the RTX A1000 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 970 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 GTX 970 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.

In addition, the RTX A1000 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A1000 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 970.