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GTX 970M

Average Bench: 32.2% (102nd of 635)

Based on 18,116 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 13D8 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
Poor: 27%Average: 32.2% Great: 35%

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Poor average bench

The Nvidia GTX 970M averaged 67.7% 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) 124fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 117fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 970M is just 7.15%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GTX 970M performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 104fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 119fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 18,116 samples)
Rank 10232.2%
Min Avg Max
76 Lighting 124 136
88.6 Reflection 104 115
96.5 Parallax 119 136
32.5% 116 fps
Min Avg Max
59.9 MRender 87.5 94.2
105 Gravity 117 124
76.2 Splatting 80.6 87.2
32.4% 95 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Acer(1025 1051) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.4166
34.7% Below average
Lighting 124
Reflection 115
Parallax 126
32% 121 fps
MRender 82.8
Gravity 130
Splatting 85.7
35% 99.5 fps
MSI(1462 116D) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.4166
34.4% Below average
Lighting 127
Reflection 113
Parallax 125
33% 122 fps
MRender 97.4
Gravity 124
Splatting 83.4
35% 102 fps
Dell(1028 0708) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.4187
31.5% Below average
Lighting 127
Reflection 104
Parallax 114
33% 115 fps
MRender 89.5
Gravity 113
Splatting 79
32% 93.7 fps
Asus(1043 1140) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.4187
31.5% Below average
Lighting 134
Reflection 106
Parallax 114
35% 118 fps
MRender 87.8
Gravity 113
Splatting 78
31% 92.8 fps
Dell(1028 0708) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.8912
28.3% Poor
Lighting 102
Reflection 92.9
Parallax 97.4
27% 97.4 fps
MRender 59.3
Gravity 108
Splatting 82.3
28% 83.3 fps
Dell(1028 0685) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.4187
25.5% Poor
Lighting 34.2
Reflection 35
Parallax 109
9% 59.5 fps
MRender 59.8
Gravity 98.9
Splatting 77.7
26% 78.8 fps
MSI(1462 1134) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.4141
23.6% Poor
Lighting 79.6
Reflection 109
Parallax 96.3
21% 94.9 fps
MRender 59.9
Gravity 87.5
Splatting 79.8
24% 75.7 fps
Asus(1043 22DA) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 441.87
8.75% Terrible
Lighting 30
Reflection 30.1
Parallax 30
8% 30 fps
MRender 30
Gravity 30
Splatting 30
9% 30 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 23,914,411 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 18,116 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Asus(1043 22DA) 19% 33% ± 2%
Dell(1028 0708) 12% 31% ± 2%
MSI(1462 116D) 5% 32% ± 2%
Asus(1043 1140) 4% 32% ± 1%
MSI(1462 116E) 4% 32% ± 1%
Dell(1028 0688) 3% 31% ± 1%
Dell(1028 0685) 3% 31% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 6555) 3% 33% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1125) 3% 30% ± 4%
Acer(1025 1051) 3% 35% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1128) 3% 33% ± 1%
Acer(1025 105B) 3% 34% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1134) 3% 33% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1158) 2% 32% ± 1%
MSI(1462 112D) 2% 32% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 6780) 2% 32% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1102) 2% 33% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1164) 2% 31% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1103) 2% 32% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1171) 2% 35% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1156) 1% 33% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7481) 1% 32% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1155) 1% 32% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 5281) 1% 33% ± 1%
Device(1A58 674B) 1% 30% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 0376) 1% 34% ± 3%
Gigabyte(1458 1756) 1% 34% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 6540) 1% 33% ± 0%
Acer(1025 107D) 1% 32% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 6541) 1% 30% ± 5%
Clevo(1558 6400) 1% 32% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7502) 1% 32% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 6781) 1% 33% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 A456) 1% 32% ± 1%
Device(1A58 674E) 1% 30% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 0371) 0% 34% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 3756) 0% 30% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 7700) 0% 36% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 7500) 0% 33% ± 0%
Dell(1028 153F) 0% 33% ± 0%
Dell(1028 02A2) 0% 33% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 B556) 0% 33% ± 0%
Dell(1028 05AB) 0% 34% ± 0%
Quanta(152D 1128) 0% 32% ± 0%
Quanta(152D 1129) 0% 32% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 13D8) 0% 34% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0550) 0% 33% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 4756) 0% 33% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 2456) 0% 32% ± 0%
Dell(1028 053F) 0% 33% ± 0%
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Desktop 53%
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Workstation 36%
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System: Asus G751JT

CPU
Core i7-4710HQIntelBench 56%, 49,095 samples1,223x
Core i7-4720HQIntelBench 57%, 54,543 samples675x
Core i7-4750HQIntelBench 50%, 3,638 samples139x
GPU
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 32%, 18,116 samples1,522x
SSD
X300s Non-Secure 256GBSanDiskBench 82%, 1,507 samples289x
X300s Non-Secure 128GBSanDiskBench 74%, 1,029 samples218x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $85Bench 106%, 532,443 samples82x
RAM
M471B1G73DB0-YK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 53%, 18,790 samples443x
HMT41GS6AFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 53%, 11,714 samples413x
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 53%, 21,592 samples227x
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 Comments

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USA-User
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1 month ago.

Well I have had this card for some time in my MSI AIO 27" touchscreen I use for cartooning animation and it works flawlessly using a modified win 8.1 a 4720HQ with 16gb of ram and a 512 SSD. I run adobe after effects CC, animate CC, sketchbook pro and artrage 4. it also plays games more than adequately like cemu, prey, no mans sky ; beyond, sekiro and hundreds of older games and emulators. I hope I can continue to use it for a few more years before I have to find something new. I may build a tower then keep the monitor for the drawing and painting capabilty? time will tell.

GBR-User
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3,882

Poor

26 days ago.

works well and handles great on most games but can’t go super hard on the graphics with graphically demanding games

CAN-User
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3,266

Good

4 months ago.

I own it... therefore it is the best.

AUS-User
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2,584

Good

7 months ago.

for mobile gaming, if you can fine a laptop with this gpu plus anything around or above an i5 5700 it's honestly a very capable gpu

PHL-User
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1,990

Good

1 month ago.

something is wrong when 650 is better even against 970m

RavenBailiff
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278

Average

7 months ago.

It WAS a ok mobile card.

Nissdrive
Avatar level
20

Excellent

7 months ago.

Honestly, at the moment, if you're going budget for laptop gaming, it will do its job and it will do it very well. This graphics card will run most games that you want it to run, at mostly high settings, and other games will run at max. As for around three or four years ago, this graphics card was very powerful for all types of gaming and could perform most tasks with ease. It compares with a GTX 1050Ti which during the time of this card was pretty good.

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