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Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 based on its benchmarks, compute performance and noise and power.
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 970 vs 690 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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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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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 7.4 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly better PassMark score | 8,563 | vs | 5,331 | More than 60% better PassMark score | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 1,050 MHz | vs | 915 MHz | Around 15% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 6,008 MHz | More than 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly better T-Rex score | 8.69 frames/s | vs | 3.66 frames/s | Around 2.5x better T-Rex score | |||
| Significantly better PassMark direct compute score | 4,375 | vs | 2,523 | Around 75% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,178 MHz | vs | 1,019 MHz | More than 15% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 1,502 MHz | More than 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Much lower TDP | 148W | vs | 300W | 2x lower TDP | |||
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| Is dual GPU | Yes | vs | No | About half of graphics cards are dual GPU | |||
| Much better 3DMark06 score | 30,360 | vs | 15,071 | More than 2x better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Much higher memory bandwidth | 384.6 GB/s | vs | 224.4 GB/s | More than 70% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Much higher texture rate | 234.2 GTexel/s | vs | 109.2 GTexel/s | Around 2.2x higher texture rate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 5,621.8 GFLOPS | vs | 3,494 GFLOPS | More than 60% better floating-point performance | |||
| Many more texture mapping units | 256 | vs | 104 | 152 more texture mapping units | |||
| Significantly more shading units | 3,072 | vs | 1,664 | 1408 more shading units | |||
| Much wider memory bus | 512 bit | vs | 256 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
| More render output processors | 64 | vs | 56 | 8 more render output processors | |||
| Higher battlefield 4 framerate | 117.5 | vs | 88.6 | Around 35% higher battlefield 4 framerate | |||
| Better cloud gate factor score | 23.22 | vs | 22.23 | Around 5% better cloud gate factor score | |||
| Slightly better manhattan score | 5,468 | vs | 3,715.92 | More than 45% better manhattan score | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 970 vs 690
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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