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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M SLI: specs and benchmarks
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- Core clock speed 924
- Max video memory 2x 6144 MB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 5000
- Maximum resolution
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 970M SLI sales 7 October 2014. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Maxwell architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2x 6 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 GHz are supplied.
Power consumption is at 162 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 970M SLI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | 174 | |
Value for money | 6.02 | |
Architecture | Maxwell (2014−2018) | |
Market segment | Laptop | |
Release date | 7 October 2014 (8 years old) | |
Current price | $1326 | of 158889 (A100 PCIe) |
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 970M SLI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 970M SLI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2560 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Core clock speed | 924 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Boost clock speed | 1038 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
Number of transistors | 2x 5200 Million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 162 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Size and compatibility
Information on GeForce GTX 970M SLI's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
Laptop size | large | |
SLI options | + |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 970M SLI: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | GDDR5 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 2x 6 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory bus width | 2x 192 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 5000 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
Shared memory | - |
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 970M SLI. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
Optimus | + |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 970M SLI, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 12_1 | |
CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 970M SLI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
Benchmark coverage: 16%
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
Benchmark coverage: 16%
3DMark Fire Strike Score
Benchmark coverage: 13%
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.
Benchmark coverage: 8%
Unigine Heaven 3.0
This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.
Benchmark coverage: 4%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 970M SLI is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
Full HD | 86 | |
4K | 39 |
Performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
Cyberpunk 2077 | 45−50 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 45−50 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 40−45 | |
Battlefield 5 | 75−80 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 65−70 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 45−50 | |
Far Cry 5 | 60−65 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 60−65 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 80−85 | |
Hitman 3 | 70−75 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 50−55 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 35−40 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 50−55 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 45−50 |
Full HD
High Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 45−50 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 40−45 | |
Battlefield 5 | 75−80 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 65−70 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 45−50 | |
Far Cry 5 | 60−65 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 60−65 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 80−85 | |
Hitman 3 | 70−75 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 50−55 | |
Metro Exodus | 35−40 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 35−40 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 50−55 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 85 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 45−50 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 45−50 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 40−45 | |
Battlefield 5 | 75−80 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 45−50 | |
Far Cry 5 | 60−65 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 60−65 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 80−85 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 48 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 45−50 |
1440p
High Preset
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 35−40 | |
Hitman 3 | 40−45 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 30−35 | |
Metro Exodus | 21−24 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 18−20 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 30−35 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 24−27 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 21−24 | |
Battlefield 5 | 50−55 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 16−18 | |
Far Cry 5 | 40−45 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 40−45 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 45−50 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 18−20 |
4K
High Preset
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 18−20 | |
Hitman 3 | 21−24 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 16−18 | |
Metro Exodus | 14−16 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 12−14 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 16−18 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 28 |
4K
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 14−16 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 12−14 | |
Battlefield 5 | 27−30 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 7−8 | |
Far Cry 5 | 21−24 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 21−24 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 30−35 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−11 |
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 970M SLI performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 970M SLI is Radeon RX 6500M, which is slower by 14% and lower by 33 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 970M SLI:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 970M SLI according to our statistics.