NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, 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

3468 points

139% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

82 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

41 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

59 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

31 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2280 points

6224 points

172% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

1484.67 points

619% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points

72998 points

299% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

71667 points

258% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points

56109 points

157% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

63483 points

226% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

62406 points

218% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

1552 MHz

67% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

1777 MHz

71% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

120.3 GB/s

224 GB/s

86% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

73% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

56.86 Gigapixels/s

14% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

142.2 Gigatexels/s

71% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

242% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

2560

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2022 January

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 970M vs GeForce RTX 3050 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970M in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3050 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 RTX 3050 also has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3050 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 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 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.