NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 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

12174 points

741% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

289 FPS

258 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

141 FPS

119 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

206 FPS

187 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

114 FPS

96 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2280 points

3862 points

69% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

5402.96 points

2517% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

168368 points

766% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

158623 points

709% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

2190 MHz

137% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

2430 MHz

134% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

12 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

120.3 GB/s

360 GB/s

199% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

300% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

290% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

555% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

1211% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

7168

459% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

180% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2023 April

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 4070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4070 has significantly more memory with 12 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 4070 at 300 W. 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 4070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 970M.