NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 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

6815 points

371% significantly better overall score

1446 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS

136 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

98 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points

413% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2280 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

1354% significantly higher Blender score

206.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

128321 points

601% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18285 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

120183 points

500% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

20012 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

95490 points

338% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

477% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19440 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

491% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19602 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

52% significantly higher core clock speed

924 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

60% significantly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

272% significantly higher memory bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

75 W

166% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

167% significantly higher pixel rate

49.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

204% significantly higher texture rate

83.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS

509% significantly better floating point performance

2.66 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

280% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

89% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586

238th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a significantly 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 RTX 3060 Ti 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti over the GeForce GTX 970M.