NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1465 points

3236 points

120% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

79 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS

41 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

57 FPS

38 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

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

1333.84 points

546% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points

66487 points

263% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

62154 points

210% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points

52643 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

58669 points

201% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

55976 points

185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

1222 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

1485 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

4 GiB

33% slightly 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

192 GB/s

59% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

Identical

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

50% significantly higher pixel rate

33.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

0.29% slightly higher texture rate

82.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

5.30 TFLOPS

99% 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

242nd of 597

145th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2021 May

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 Ti Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 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 RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 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 Ti Laptop has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 970M and the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 970M.