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Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
See full details GeForce GTX 970 vs 745 |
Released September, 2014
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
- 1.1 GHz
- 4 GB GDDR5
7.2 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!MSI's GTX 970 Gaming is available online for $350, which is a $20 price premium for the overclock out of the box and the improved cooler.
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 970 vs 745 among Desktop 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 | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 7.2 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much better PassMark score | 8,563 | vs | 2,167 | Around 4x better PassMark score | |||
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| Much higher memory bandwidth | 224.4 GB/s | vs | 28.8 GB/s | More than 7.8x higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Much higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 1,800 MHz | Around 4x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 3,494 GFLOPS | vs | 793.3 GFLOPS | Around 4.5x better floating-point performance | |||
| Significantly higher pixel rate | 58.8 GPixel/s | vs | 16.53 GPixel/s | More than 3.5x higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher texture rate | 109.2 GTexel/s | vs | 24.79 GTexel/s | Around 4.5x higher texture rate | |||
| Many more render output processors | 56 | vs | 16 | 40 more render output processors | |||
| Much better ocean surface simulation score | 1,203.9 frames/s | vs | 335.34 frames/s | More than 3.5x better ocean surface simulation score | |||
| Much better fire strike factor score | 72.7 | vs | 27.8 | More than 2.5x better fire strike factor score | |||
| Significantly more shading units | 1,664 | vs | 384 | 1280 more shading units | |||
| Significantly more texture mapping units | 104 | vs | 24 | 80 more texture mapping units | |||
| Much higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 900 MHz | Around 95% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly better PassMark direct compute score | 4,375 | vs | 1,048 | Around 4.2x better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,178 MHz | vs | 1,085 MHz | Around 10% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Slightly better manhattan score | 3,714.62 | vs | 1,642.31 | More than 2.2x better manhattan score | |||
| Slightly wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
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| Significantly lower TDP | 55W | vs | 148W | 2.7x lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 970 vs 745
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation 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
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Desktops
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- 30 desktops with the GeForce GTX 970, starting from $1,309
- 14 desktops with the GeForce GTX 745, starting from $745
