NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1446 points

16967 points

1073% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

394 FPS

364 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

213 FPS

191 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

288 FPS

269 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

163 FPS

146 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

7942.06 points

3748% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

215096 points

1006% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

191283 points

875% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

990 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

1515 MHz

45% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

896 GB/s

644% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

26% slightly lower TDP

95 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

169.7 Gigapixels/s

240% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

496.9 Gigatexels/s

498% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

10496

720% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

309% 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

14th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2025 March

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 5090 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop has a slightly 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 5090 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop at 95 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.