NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop, 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 3080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1465 points

7964 points

443% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

186 FPS

155 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS

95 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

133 FPS

114 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

75 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

3279.67 points

1489% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points

138398 points

656% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

125425 points

526% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points

91922 points

322% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

113801 points

485% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

103840 points

429% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

1110 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

1545 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

120.3 GB/s

448 GB/s

272% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

53% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

148.3 Gigapixels/s

197% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

296.6 Gigatexels/s

257% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

18.98 TFLOPS

614% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

6144

380% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

241st of 597

55th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2021 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 3080 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop 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 GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop at 115 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 3080 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.