NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, 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
14371 points
893% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS
336 FPS
306 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
169 FPS
147 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS
245 FPS
226 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
137 FPS
119 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2280 points
4636 points
103% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points
6144.78 points
2877% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points
192880 points
892% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points
181592 points
826% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz
1980 MHz
114% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz
2475 MHz
138% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
Identical
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

120.3 GB/s
504.2 GB/s
319% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
193% significantly lower TDP
220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s
198 Gigapixels/s
297% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s
554.4 Gigatexels/s
567% significantly higher texture rate

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

80
224
180% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
80
66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586
21st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER beats the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER over the GeForce GTX 970M.

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