NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 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 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1446 points

4302 points

197% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

104 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

53 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

76 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

41 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

2581.07 points

1150% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

75551 points

288% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

75827 points

286% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

1455 MHz

57% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

1755 MHz

69% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

96 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

50 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

56.16 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

140.4 Gigatexels/s

69% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

8.99 TFLOPS

238% 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

118th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2023 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 4050 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop 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 4050 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970M at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.