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Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M based on its gaming, benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released October, 2014
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M
- 1 GHz
- 6 GB GDDR5
7 Out of 10
by Jarred-Walton (Apr, 2013)Besides the above slide, NVIDIA provided some performance estimates using results from the 3DMark 11 Performance benchmark, and the results are even more heavily in favor of NVIDIA.
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Released March, 2015
Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M
- 1.1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.9 Out of 10
by Anthony-Garreffa (Jan, 2015)Performance (overclocking, power)95%Quality (build, cooling, design)90%General Features (display outputs, etc)90%Bundle, Packaging & Software90%Value for Money99% Overall TweakTown Rating93% The Bottom Line: ZOTAC has crafted such a great video card in the GeForce GTX 960 AMP!
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 970M vs 960M among Laptop 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 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly better 3DMark06 score | 9,904.5 | vs | 5,277 | Around 90% better 3DMark06 score | |||
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| Significantly more memory | 6,144 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 3x more memory | |||
| Better PassMark score | 4,048 | vs | 2,043 | Around 2x better PassMark score | |||
| Much higher diablo III framerate | 225 fps | vs | 121.3 fps | More than 85% higher diablo III framerate | |||
| Significantly higher pixel rate | 49.8 GPixel/s | vs | 17.55 GPixel/s | More than 2.8x higher pixel rate | |||
| Better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 26,947 | vs | 23,777.5 | Around 15% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 2,657.3 GFLOPS | vs | 1,404.2 GFLOPS | Around 90% better floating-point performance | |||
| Much higher crysis 3 framerate | 33.4 fps | vs | 20.75 fps | More than 60% higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| Significantly more render output processors | 48 | vs | 16 | Three times as many render output processors | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 120.3 GB/s | vs | 80.2 GB/s | Around 50% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Higher texture rate | 83 GTexel/s | vs | 43.9 GTexel/s | Around 90% higher texture rate | |||
| More shading units | 1,280 | vs | 640 | Twice as many shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 80 | vs | 40 | Twice as many texture mapping units | |||
| Significantly higher BioShock infinite framerate | 71.9 fps | vs | 45.3 fps | Around 60% higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| Better fire strike factor score | 59.95 | vs | 32.14 | More than 85% better fire strike factor score | |||
| Higher metro: last light framerate | 52.3 | vs | 31.05 | Around 70% higher metro: last light framerate | |||
| Wider memory bus | 192 bit | vs | 128 bit | 50% wider memory bus | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 2,799 | vs | 1,479 | Around 90% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
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| Slightly higher clock speed | 1,097 MHz | vs | 1,038 MHz | More than 5% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,176 MHz | vs | 993 MHz | Around 20% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Better bitcoin mining score | 174.61 mHash/s | vs | 81.91 mHash/s | Around 2.2x better bitcoin mining score | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 970M vs 960M
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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