NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 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
20% slightly better overall score
1882 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
49 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
33 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
697.32 points
140% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
40962 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
37410 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz
26% slightly higher core clock speed
832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
1537 MHz
30% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s
133% significantly higher memory bandwidth
96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s
34% slightly higher pixel rate
49.18 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s
24% slightly higher texture rate
98.37 Gigatexels/s

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
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

56
75% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
216th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

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 RTX A500 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A500 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the RTX A500 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 970.

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