NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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

13991 points

867% significantly better overall score

1446 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

302 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

147 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

221 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

774% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2280 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

2720% significantly higher Blender score

206.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

238123 points

1202% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18285 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

923% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

20012 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

538% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

900% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19440 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

817% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19602 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

924 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

63% significantly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

700% 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

936.2 GB/s

678% 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

189.8 Gigapixels/s

280% significantly higher pixel rate

49.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

569% significantly higher texture rate

83.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

1239% significantly better floating point performance

2.66 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

720% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

309% 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

25th 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 3090 vs GeForce GTX 970M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 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 3090 at 350 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 3090 is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.