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GTX 970M

Average Bench: 32% (94th of 627)

Based on 16,456 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 13D8 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
Poor: 27%Average: 32% Great: 34%

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Poor average bench

The Nvidia GTX 970M averaged 68.0% 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) 122fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 116fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 970M is just 6.76%. 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) 117fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 16,456 samples)
Rank 9432%
Min Avg Max
89.4 Lighting 122 136
89 Reflection 104 112
95.8 Parallax 117 134
32.2% 115 fps
Min Avg Max
59.9 MRender 86.8 94
104 Gravity 116 124
74 Splatting 79.7 86.6
32.1% 94.2 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Asus(1043 22DA) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 397.64
33.9% Below average
Lighting 136
Reflection 106
Parallax 125
36% 122 fps
MRender 93.2
Gravity 122
Splatting 85.4
34% 100 fps
Clevo(1558 6555) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3648
33% Below average
Lighting 134
Reflection 108
Parallax 121
35% 121 fps
MRender 91
Gravity 119
Splatting 81.3
33% 97.1 fps
MSI(1462 1158) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3615
32.8% Below average
Lighting 128
Reflection 109
Parallax 120
34% 119 fps
MRender 90.4
Gravity 118
Splatting 82.6
33% 97.2 fps
MSI(1462 116E) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.4120
32.7% Below average
Lighting 115
Reflection 97.3
Parallax 108
30% 106 fps
MRender 91.2
Gravity 119
Splatting 82.6
33% 97.5 fps
MSI(1462 1125) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3630
32.4% Below average
Lighting 129
Reflection 108
Parallax 121
34% 119 fps
MRender 90.8
Gravity 117
Splatting 78.4
32% 95.3 fps
Asus(1043 22DA) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 441.66
31.9% Below average
Lighting 126
Reflection 105
Parallax 117
33% 116 fps
MRender 86.8
Gravity 115
Splatting 81.7
32% 94.6 fps
Dell(1028 0685) 3GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.8912
31.8% Below average
Lighting 132
Reflection 105
Parallax 115
35% 118 fps
MRender 89.6
Gravity 114
Splatting 77.4
32% 93.5 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 22,406,622 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 16,456 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Asus(1043 22DA) 14% 33% ± 2%
Dell(1028 0708) 13% 31% ± 1%
MSI(1462 116D) 8% 32% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1128) 5% 32% ± 3%
Asus(1043 1140) 5% 31% ± 1%
MSI(1462 116E) 4% 33% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1125) 4% 30% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 6555) 3% 33% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1102) 3% 32% ± 2%
Dell(1028 0685) 3% 31% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1158) 3% 32% ± 2%
MSI(1462 112D) 3% 33% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1134) 2% 32% ± 3%
MSI(1462 1164) 2% 32% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1156) 2% 33% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1103) 2% 33% ± 1%
Dell(1028 0688) 2% 31% ± 2%
Device(1A58 674B) 2% 30% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 6540) 2% 33% ± 1%
Acer(1025 1051) 1% 34% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 6780) 1% 33% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1155) 1% 31% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 6400) 1% 32% ± 0%
Device(1A58 674E) 1% 32% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 5281) 1% 32% ± 1%
Acer(1025 107D) 1% 34% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 7700) 1% 32% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 1555) 1% 31% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 6541) 1% 32% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 0376) 1% 34% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 A456) 1% 26% ± 6%
MSI(1462 1171) 1% 33% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 7502) 1% 33% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 7702) 1% 33% ± 2%
Acer(1025 105B) 1% 32% ± 3%
Gigabyte(1458 2555) 0% 32% ± 0%
Acer(1025 107E) 0% 31% ± 5%
Acer(1025 026B) 0% 32% ± 2%
Dell(1028 053F) 0% 31% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 6781) 0% 33% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 7481) 0% 33% ± 0%
Dell(1028 02A2) 0% 34% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 B556) 0% 33% ± 0%
Dell(1028 05AB) 0% 34% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 C556) 0% 32% ± 0%
HP(103C 1520) 0% 34% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 4756) 0% 33% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 2456) 0% 24% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7500) 0% 34% ± 0%
Toshiba(1179 FB12) 0% 30% ± 0%
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Desktop 53%
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Workstation 36%
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System: Asus G751JT

CPU
Core i7-4710HQIntelBench 55%, 49,055 samples1,152x
Core i7-4720HQIntelBench 57%, 52,576 samples625x
Core i7-4750HQIntelBench 50%, 3,509 samples130x
GPU
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 32%, 16,456 samples1,426x
SSD
X300s Non-Secure 256GBSanDiskBench 81%, 1,425 samples275x
X300s Non-Secure 128GBSanDiskBench 74%, 1,008 samples212x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $55Bench 105%, 518,957 samples77x
RAM
M471B1G73DB0-YK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 53%, 19,104 samples422x
HMT41GS6AFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 53%, 10,738 samples389x
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 53%, 19,635 samples207x
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 Comments

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USA-User
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5,980

Good (edit your comment) Add link

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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3,792

Excellent

1 month 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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3,166

Good

2 months ago.

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

AUS-User
Avatar level
2,528

Good

6 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
Avatar level
1,938

Good

2 days ago.

something is wrong when 650 is better even against 970m

RavenBailiff
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260

Average

6 months ago.

It WAS a ok mobile card.

Nissdrive
Avatar level
16

Excellent

5 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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