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Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 based on its benchmarks.
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 970 vs 820A among all GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much better PassMark score | 8,563 | vs | 689 | Around 12.5x better PassMark score | |||
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| Much higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 1,800 MHz | Around 4x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Much higher memory bandwidth | 224.4 GB/s | vs | 14.4 GB/s | More than 15.5x higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Higher clock speed | 1,050 MHz | vs | 775 MHz | More than 35% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher pixel rate | 58.8 GPixel/s | vs | 3.1 GPixel/s | Around 19x higher pixel rate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 3,494 GFLOPS | vs | 297.6 GFLOPS | Around 11.8x better floating-point performance | |||
| More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 4x more memory | |||
| Many more render output processors | 56 | vs | 8 | 48 more render output processors | |||
| Higher texture rate | 109.2 GTexel/s | vs | 12.4 GTexel/s | More than 8.8x higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly more shading units | 1,664 | vs | 96 | 1568 more shading units | |||
| Significantly more texture mapping units | 104 | vs | 16 | 88 more texture mapping units | |||
| Much higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 900 MHz | Around 95% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit | 4x wider memory bus | |||
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| Significantly lower TDP | 15W | vs | 148W | 9.9x lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 970 vs 820A
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
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