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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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Gaming | |
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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 |
7.5 | Overall Score |
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Significantly higher memory bandwidth | 320 GB/s | vs | 224.4 GB/s | Around 45% higher memory bandwidth | |||
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Better floating-point performance | 5,632 GFLOPS | vs | 3,494 GFLOPS | More than 60% better floating-point performance | |||
Higher texture rate | 176 GTexel/s | vs | 109.2 GTexel/s | More than 60% higher texture rate | |||
Significantly more shading units | 2,816 | vs | 1,664 | 1152 more shading units | |||
Significantly more texture mapping units | 176 | vs | 104 | 72 more texture mapping 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 | |||
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Significantly higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 5,000 MHz | More than 40% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
Better PassMark score | 8,563 | vs | 7,331 | More than 15% better PassMark score | |||
Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 1,250 MHz | More than 40% higher memory clock speed | |||
Higher turbo clock speed | 1,178 MHz | vs | 1,000 MHz | Around 20% higher turbo clock speed | |||
Better particle simulation score | 1,017.16 mInteraction/s | vs | 821.28 mInteraction/s | Around 25% better particle simulation score | |||
Better PassMark direct compute score | 4,375 | vs | 3,510 | Around 25% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
Higher battlefield 4 framerate | 88.6 | vs | 68.75 | Around 30% higher battlefield 4 framerate | |||
Higher BioShock infinite framerate | 107.6 fps | vs | 94.9 fps | Around 15% higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
Much lower TDP | 148W | vs | 300W | 2x lower TDP |
Radeon R9 290X | vs | GeForce GTX 970 | ||
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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs 1060 | ||
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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs 970 | ||
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$304 | ||
GeForce GTX 1060 vs 970 | ||
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GeForce GTX 960 vs 970 | ||
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Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 1060 | ||
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GeForce GTX 960 vs 750 Ti | ||