NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX350

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX350, 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

57% significantly better overall score

918 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

21 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

14 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

11 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2280 points

85% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1229 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

122% significantly higher Blender score

92.96 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

12572 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

13872 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

13882 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

13618 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

13257 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

747 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

937 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

120.3 GB/s

114% significantly higher memory bandwidth

56.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

20 W

274% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

232% significantly higher pixel rate

14.99 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

176% significantly higher texture rate

29.98 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

41% slightly better floating point performance

1.88 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

100% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586

269th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce MX350 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970M beats the GeForce MX350 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 970M has a slightly 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 970M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX350 has a significantly lower TDP at 20 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970M at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970M is better than the GeForce MX350.