NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 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

24107 points

1567% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

560 FPS

530 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

277 FPS

255 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

407 FPS

387 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

226 FPS

208 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2280 points

8762 points

284% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

9133.30 points

4325% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

267906 points

1278% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

257198 points

1212% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

2295 MHz

148% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

2617 MHz

152% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

16 GiB

433% significantly more memory

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

960 GB/s

698% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

380% significantly lower TDP

360 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

293.1 Gigapixels/s

488% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

879.3 Gigatexels/s

958% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

56.28 TFLOPS

2018% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

10752

740% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336

319% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586

4th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

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 5080 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970M in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 5080 has significantly more memory with 16 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 5080 at 360 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 over the GeForce GTX 970M.