NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14177 points

880% significantly better overall score

1446 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

342 FPS

312 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

168 FPS

146 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

245 FPS

226 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

135 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and the GeForce GTX 970M? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19628 points

760% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2280 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5580.42 points

2603% significantly higher Blender score

206.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

235513 points

1188% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18285 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

209081 points

944% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

20012 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

131975 points

506% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

191836 points

886% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19440 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

173043 points

782% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19602 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1370 MHz

48% 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

12 GiB

300% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

912.4 GB/s

658% significantly higher memory bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

75 W

366% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

186.5 Gigapixels/s

274% significantly higher pixel rate

49.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

532.8 Gigatexels/s

541% significantly higher texture rate

83.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.1 TFLOPS

1183% significantly better floating point performance

2.66 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240

700% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

300% 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

22nd of 586

238th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 3080 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 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 3080 Ti at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.