NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA TITAN Xp

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA TITAN Xp 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA TITAN Xp

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 630.00 significantly less expensive

$ 999.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

6203 points

174% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

128 FPS

81 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

101 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

82 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

82 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

947.29 points

226% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

58384 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

65766 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

88308 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

72291 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

86174 points

166% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1405 MHz

33% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1582 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

547.6 GB/s

144% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

72% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

151.9 Gigapixels/s

130% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

379.7 Gigatexels/s

209% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

12.15 TFLOPS

209% significantly better floating point performance

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

240

130% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

71% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

78th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR5X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs TITAN Xp specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the TITAN Xp beats the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming performance.

The TITAN Xp has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the TITAN Xp also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the TITAN Xp has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the TITAN Xp at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the TITAN Xp is better than the GeForce GTX 970.