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GeForce GTX 970M

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Release date ≈ Q2 2015.

Average Bench: 31.2% (147th of 692)

Based on 6,247 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1618 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
Poor: 25%Average: 31.2% Great: 33%

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Poor average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M averaged 68.8% 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) 38.5fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 34.4fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M is just 7.66%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 43.9fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 38.2fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 6,247 samples)
Rank 14731.2%
Min Avg Max
30.1 Lighting 38.5 41.5
38.4 Reflection 43.9 53.4
31.9 Parallax 38.2 43.2
31.4% 40.2 fps
Min Avg Max
26.4 MRender 39.6 41.5
35.4 Gravity 40.1 41.9
31.5 Splatting 34.4 36
30.8% 38 fps
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The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Asus(1043 1CED) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 517.63
31.8% Below average
Lighting 39.5
Reflection 42.6
Parallax 37.9
32% 40 fps
MRender 40.2
Gravity 40.5
Splatting 34.5
31% 38.4 fps
Asus(1043 1CED) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 526.86
31.6% Below average
Lighting 39
Reflection 42.8
Parallax 38.1
32% 40 fps
MRender 40.5
Gravity 40.5
Splatting 34.6
31% 38.5 fps
MSI(1462 1156) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 382.05
31.4% Below average
Lighting 38.9
Reflection 42.5
Parallax 38.1
32% 39.8 fps
MRender 39.8
Gravity 40.2
Splatting 34.4
31% 38.1 fps
MSI(1462 1156) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 382.05
30.2% Below average
Lighting 37.1
Reflection 42.5
Parallax 36.8
30% 38.8 fps
MRender 40.3
Gravity 38.8
Splatting 32.9
30% 37.3 fps
Clevo(1558 7703) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.05
29.6% Poor
Lighting 35.3
Reflection 43.6
Parallax 38.6
29% 39.2 fps
MRender 40.2
Gravity 40.7
Splatting 35.2
31% 38.7 fps
Asus(1043 22DA) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 527.56
28.5% Poor
Lighting 40.5
Reflection 43.9
Parallax 38.9
33% 41.1 fps
MRender 40.8
Gravity 41.4
Splatting 0.3
20% 27.5 fps
Clevo(1558 7703) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 527.56
26.7% Poor
Lighting 30.4
Reflection 47
Parallax 29.6
25% 35.7 fps
MRender 39.2
Gravity 39.9
Splatting 33.9
30% 37.7 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Asus(1043 1CED) 41% 32% ± 2%
Asus(1043 22DA) 21% 31% ± 3%
MSI(1462 1156) 15% 31% ± 3%
Asus(1043 1310) 7% 30% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 7703) 3% 31% ± 3%
MSI(1462 1141) 3% 32% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 6542) 2% 31% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 6543) 2% 32% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 7503) 1% 30% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 7701) 1% 29% ± 6%
Clevo(1558 6783) 1% 32% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1187) 1% 31% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 6782) 1% 31% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 7501) 1% 31% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 2757) 0% 26% ± 7%
Clevo(1558 0871) 0% 31% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 110C) 0% 31% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 1757) 0% 32% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0551) 0% 29% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 1759) 0% 32% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7700) 0% 28% ± 0%
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System: Asus G752VT

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples241x
GPU
GeForce GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 6,247 samples240x
SSD
SAMSUNG MZVLV128 128GBNvmeBench 104%, 3,203 samples45x
SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung  $36Bench 183%, 9,202 samples36x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $94Bench 259%, 105,760 samples7x
RAM
M471A1G43DB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 70%, 20,956 samples84x
M471A1G43DB0-CPB 1x8GBSamsungBench 38%, 15,437 samples19x
M471A1K43BB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 66%, 14,350 samples13x
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