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Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly better PassMark score | 8,563 | vs | 4,686 | Around 85% better PassMark score | |||
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| Significantly higher memory bandwidth | 224.4 GB/s | vs | 144.2 GB/s | More than 55% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Higher clock speed | 1,050 MHz | vs | 915 MHz | Around 15% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher pixel rate | 58.8 GPixel/s | vs | 25.62 GPixel/s | More than 2.2x higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 6,008 MHz | More than 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly more render output processors | 56 | vs | 24 | 32 more render output processors | |||
| Much better T-Rex score | 8.69 frames/s | vs | 3.04 frames/s | More than 2.8x better T-Rex score | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 3,494 GFLOPS | vs | 2,459.5 GFLOPS | More than 40% better floating-point performance | |||
| Significantly better fire strike factor score | 72.7 | vs | 49.97 | More than 45% better fire strike factor score | |||
| Significantly higher BioShock infinite framerate | 107.6 fps | vs | 62.9 fps | More than 70% higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| Significantly higher crysis 3 framerate | 50.6 fps | vs | 30.3 fps | More than 65% higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,178 MHz | vs | 980 MHz | More than 20% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher battlefield 4 framerate | 88.6 | vs | 42 | More than 2x higher battlefield 4 framerate | |||
| Significantly better PassMark direct compute score | 4,375 | vs | 2,546 | More than 70% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 1,502 MHz | More than 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
| More shading units | 1,664 | vs | 1,344 | 320 more shading units | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
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| Significantly better 3DMark06 score | 22,997 | vs | 15,071 | Around 55% better 3DMark06 score | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 970 vs 660 Ti
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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