NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 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

1446 points

4933 points

241% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

114 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

65 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

78 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

49 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2280 points

7843 points

243% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

2173.35 points

953% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points

94250 points

415% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

85184 points

325% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points

66795 points

207% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

84977 points

337% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

79052 points

303% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

1005 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

1545 MHz

48% 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

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

120.3 GB/s

416 GB/s

245% 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

98.88 Gigapixels/s

98% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

222.5 Gigatexels/s

167% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

7.12 TFLOPS

167% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

2304

79% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

79% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586

103rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2018 November

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 Quadro RTX 4000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Quadro RTX 4000 beats the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming performance.

The Quadro RTX 4000 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 Quadro RTX 4000 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 Quadro RTX 4000 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 4000 at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro RTX 4000 over the GeForce GTX 970M.