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GeForce GTX 970

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Release date ≈ Q3 2021.

Average Bench: 46.4% (135th of 715)

Based on 9 user benchmarks.  Device: 1414 008E Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Poor: 41%Average: 46.4% Great: 56%

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Below average average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 averaged 53.6% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 57fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 51.9fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 is just 15.3%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 64.3fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 55.3fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 9 samples)
Rank 13546.4%
Min Avg Max
47.3 Lighting 57 71.2
52.4 Reflection 64.3 81.3
20.9 Parallax 55.3 66.9
46.4% 58.8 fps
Min Avg Max
56.7 MRender 63.1 67.9
51.5 Gravity 56.4 62.5
46.8 Splatting 51.9 61
46.2% 57.2 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Device(0000 0000)
Driver: Ver. 10.0.19041.1
55.9% Above average
Lighting 71.2
Reflection 81.3
Parallax 63.7
58% 72.1 fps
MRender 67.9
Gravity 62.5
Splatting 61
52% 63.8 fps
Device(0000 0000)
Driver: Ver. 10.0.19041.1
46.7% Average
Lighting 57.4
Reflection 65
Parallax 61.9
47% 61.4 fps
MRender 63.7
Gravity 57.6
Splatting 52
47% 57.8 fps
Device(0000 0000)
Driver: Ver. 10.0.19041.1
44.3% Average
Lighting 54.5
Reflection 62.5
Parallax 59.5
44% 58.8 fps
MRender 62.8
Gravity 52.9
Splatting 48.5
44% 54.7 fps
Device(0000 0000)
Driver: Ver. 10.0.19041.1
43.2% Average
Lighting 51.7
Reflection 60.3
Parallax 53.9
42% 55.3 fps
MRender 63.9
Gravity 54.5
Splatting 49.7
45% 56 fps
Device(0000 0000)
Driver: Ver. 10.0.19041.1
42.2% Average
Lighting 52.1
Reflection 60
Parallax 56.2
42% 56.1 fps
MRender 56.7
Gravity 51.5
Splatting 46.8
42% 51.7 fps
Device(0000 0000)
Driver: Ver. 10.0.19041.1
40.6% Average
Lighting 47.8
Reflection 62.5
Parallax 54.1
39% 54.8 fps
MRender 60.9
Gravity 51.6
Splatting 50.1
44% 54.2 fps

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Typical GeForce GTX 970 Builds (Compare 24,558 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 17%
Surfboard
Desktop
Desktop 74%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 13%
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Disqualified System: bin bin

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel  $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples2,059x
Core i7-2600Intel  $188Bench 67%, 185,630 samples1,590x
Core i5-3470Intel  $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples948x
GPU
GeForce GTX 970NvidiaBench 46%, 9 samples1x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples830x
Virtual NVMe Disk 64GBVmwareBench 62%, 2,103 samples458x
A400 480GBKingston  $31Bench 74%, 237,487 samples433x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples521x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples379x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples300x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 64% - Good Total price: $325

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