NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 8670M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8670M 1 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

1854% significantly better overall score

74 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points

261% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5532 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

250% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5539 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

775 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

775 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

200% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586

522nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 8000M Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon HD 8670M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970M graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8670M in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970M has a slightly 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 GTX 970M also has a slightly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 970M has significantly more memory with 3 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970M over the Radeon HD 8670M.