AMD Radeon vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare AMD Radeon 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

658 points
1446 points
119% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

14 FPS
30 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
22 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS
19 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS
18 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

129 points
2280 points
1667% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.40 points
206.38 points
133% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11765 points
20012 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

14652 points
21753 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28407 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
19440 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

210459 points
973% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
19602 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

298th of 586
238th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

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12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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4.5

Radeon vs GeForce GTX 970M specs and performance

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

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

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