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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 7870 XT vs 970 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 | |
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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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| Better 3DMark06 score | 20,070 | vs | 15,071 | Around 35% better 3DMark06 score | |||
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| Significantly better PassMark score | 8,563 | vs | 4,420 | Around 95% better PassMark score | |||
| More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 6,000 MHz | More than 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher clock speed | 1,050 MHz | vs | 925 MHz | Around 15% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 58.8 GPixel/s | vs | 31.2 GPixel/s | Around 90% higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 224.4 GB/s | vs | 192 GB/s | More than 15% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Significantly more render output processors | 56 | vs | 32 | 24 more render output processors | |||
| Significantly better fire strike factor score | 72.7 | vs | 47.56 | Around 55% better fire strike factor score | |||
| Slightly better floating-point performance | 3,494 GFLOPS | vs | 2,995.2 GFLOPS | More than 15% better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,178 MHz | vs | 975 MHz | More than 20% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Better T-Rex score | 8.69 frames/s | vs | 6.37 frames/s | More than 35% better T-Rex score | |||
| Significantly better PassMark direct compute score | 4,375 | vs | 2,460 | Around 80% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Slightly higher texture rate | 109.2 GTexel/s | vs | 93.6 GTexel/s | More than 15% higher texture rate | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 1,500 MHz | More than 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Lower TDP | 148W | vs | 185W | 20% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 7870 XT vs GeForce GTX 970
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
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