NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 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

11608 points

702% significantly better overall score

1446 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

250 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

119 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

180 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points

673% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2280 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

2236% significantly higher Blender score

206.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

206390 points

1028% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18285 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points

808% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

20012 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points

479% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

791% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19440 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

709% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19602 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

924 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

64% significantly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB

233% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

66% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

532% significantly higher memory bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

75 W

326% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

229% significantly higher pixel rate

49.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

460% significantly higher texture rate

83.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

1020% significantly better floating point performance

2.66 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

580% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

239% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586

238th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

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 vs GeForce GTX 970M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 beats the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3080 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 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3080 has significantly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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