NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs Intel Arc

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs Intel Arc, 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

1446 points
2921 points
102% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS
73 FPS
43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
45 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS
48 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
27 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2280 points
187% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
792 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points
398.06 points
92% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points
29914 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points
31247 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586
158th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October
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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 970M vs Arc comparison

For gaming, the Arc graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970M in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Arc over the GeForce GTX 970M.

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