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GeForce GTX 970M

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Release date ≈ Q2 2015.

Average Bench: 30.4% (95th of 625)

Based on 3,781 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1618 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
Poor: 19%Average: 30.4% Great: 34%

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Poor average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M averaged 69.5% 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) 119fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 114fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M is just 14.2%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 101fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 117fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 3,781 samples)
Rank 9530.4%
Min Avg Max
70.4 Lighting 119 134
74.2 Reflection 101 111
74.7 Parallax 117 135
30.6% 112 fps
Min Avg Max
60 MRender 87.4 93.1
74.6 Gravity 114 124
72.6 Splatting 80.8 86.7
30.3% 94.2 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Clevo(1558 0871) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5
46.4% Average
Lighting 243
Reflection 109
Parallax 125
57% 159 fps
MRender 91.2
Gravity 122
Splatting 85.4
32% 99.7 fps
Asus(1043 22DA) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 441.12
32.5% Below average
Lighting 132
Reflection 109
Parallax 122
34% 121 fps
MRender 89.2
Gravity 119
Splatting 79
31% 95.7 fps
Asus(1043 1CED) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 441.8
32.4% Below average
Lighting 129
Reflection 108
Parallax 122
33% 120 fps
MRender 92.1
Gravity 120
Splatting 81.6
32% 97.9 fps
Asus(1043 1310) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 419.35
32.3% Below average
Lighting 128
Reflection 108
Parallax 121
33% 119 fps
MRender 92
Gravity 121
Splatting 81.6
32% 98.3 fps
Asus(1043 1CED) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 416.81
32.3% Below average
Lighting 126
Reflection 109
Parallax 132
33% 122 fps
MRender 92.4
Gravity 120
Splatting 80.4
32% 97.7 fps
MSI(1462 1156) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 419.35
32.1% Below average
Lighting 125
Reflection 109
Parallax 121
32% 118 fps
MRender 91.4
Gravity 122
Splatting 85.7
32% 99.9 fps
Asus(1043 1310) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 398.36
32.1% Below average
Lighting 128
Reflection 109
Parallax 120
33% 119 fps
MRender 90
Gravity 118
Splatting 82.1
31% 96.8 fps
MSI(1462 1156) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 441.12
31.8% Below average
Lighting 125
Reflection 108
Parallax 120
32% 118 fps
MRender 90.3
Gravity 120
Splatting 81
31% 97.1 fps
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Based on statistics from 3,781 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Asus(1043 1CED) 37% 30% ± 4%
Asus(1043 22DA) 21% 31% ± 5%
MSI(1462 1156) 15% 29% ± 4%
MSI(1462 1141) 5% 30% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 7703) 4% 31% ± 3%
Asus(1043 1310) 4% 29% ± 5%
Clevo(1558 7503) 3% 30% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 6542) 3% 32% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 6543) 2% 32% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 2757) 1% 41% ± 7%
MSI(1462 1187) 1% 29% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 6782) 1% 28% ± 6%
Clevo(1558 6783) 1% 31% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 1759) 1% 27% ± 5%
Clevo(1558 7501) 1% 30% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 7701) 0% 25% ± 11%
Gigabyte(1458 1757) 0% 46% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 0871) 0% 42% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 5105) 0% 33% ± 0%
Dell(1028 02A2) 0% 31% ± 0%
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System: Asus G752VT

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Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 56%, 191,294 samples884x
GPU
GeForce GTX 970MNvidiaBench 30%, 3,781 samples878x
SSD
SAMSUNG MZVLV128 128GBNvmeBench 96%, 1,970 samples231x
SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung  $130Bench 189%, 5,945 samples168x
MZVLV128HCGR-00000 128GBSamsungBench 94%, 576 samples50x
RAM
M471A1G43DB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 69%, 10,981 samples361x
M471A1G43DB0-CPB 1x8GBSamsungBench 38%, 9,564 samples96x
M471A1K43BB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 65%, 8,008 samples71x
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