NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 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

1465 points

8919 points

508% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

216 FPS

185 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS

103 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

152 FPS

133 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

83 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

3833.53 points

1757% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

130295 points

570% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

123771 points

531% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

2310 MHz

150% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

2535 MHz

144% 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

288 GB/s

139% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

113% significantly lower TDP

160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

121.7 Gigapixels/s

144% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

344.8 Gigatexels/s

315% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

22.06 TFLOPS

730% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

4352

239% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

136

69% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

240th of 597

44th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce RTX 4060 Ti specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti has a significantly 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 4060 Ti 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti at 160 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 4060 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.