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GeForce GTX 970M

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Release date ≈ Q2 2015.

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Average Bench: 38.3% (93rd of 621)

Based on 3,816 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1618 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
Poor: 27%Average: 38.3% Great: 42%

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Poor average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M averaged 61.6% 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) 117fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 113fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M is just 15.2%. 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) 99.1fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 80.1fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 3,816 samples)
Rank 9338.3%
Min Avg Max
30.5 Lighting 117 135
30.2 Reflection 99.1 111
74.4 Parallax 115 135
35.9% 110 fps
Min Avg Max
59.2 MRender 85.9 93.3
74.3 Gravity 113 124
66.1 Splatting 80.1 86.7
40.1% 92.9 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: 391.35
42.3% Average
Lighting 133
Reflection 108
Parallax 135
41% 125 fps
MRender 92.1
Gravity 120
Splatting 86.7
43% 99.8 fps
Asus(1043 1CED) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 391.35
42.3% Average
Lighting 133
Reflection 109
Parallax 135
42% 126 fps
MRender 91.3
Gravity 121
Splatting 86.2
43% 99.4 fps
Asus(1043 22DA) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 416.34
41.8% Average
Lighting 133
Reflection 111
Parallax 123
40% 122 fps
MRender 92.5
Gravity 123
Splatting 83.5
43% 99.7 fps
Clevo(1558 6543) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5
41.4% Average
Lighting 131
Reflection 109
Parallax 122
40% 121 fps
MRender 91.1
Gravity 122
Splatting 83.5
43% 98.7 fps
Asus(1043 1CED) 3GB
CLim: 1038 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 418.91
27.8% Poor
Lighting 74.7
Reflection 74.8
Parallax 74.7
23% 74.7 fps
MRender 74.7
Gravity 74.7
Splatting 74.7
31% 74.7 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Asus(1043 1CED) 37% 39% ± 6%
Asus(1043 22DA) 19% 38% ± 6%
MSI(1462 1156) 16% 38% ± 4%
Asus(1043 1310) 5% 34% ± 9%
Clevo(1558 7703) 5% 36% ± 8%
MSI(1462 1141) 4% 40% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 7503) 3% 38% ± 7%
Clevo(1558 6542) 3% 39% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 6543) 2% 40% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 2757) 2% 44% ± 10%
Clevo(1558 6782) 1% 38% ± 5%
MSI(1462 1187) 1% 38% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 7501) 1% 36% ± 8%
Gigabyte(1458 1759) 1% 38% ± 12%
Gigabyte(1458 1757) 0% 43% ± 12%
HP(103C 1630) 0% 41% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 7701) 0% 38% ± 5%
Clevo(1558 6783) 0% 37% ± 4%
MSI(1462 110C) 0% 40% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 5105) 0% 42% ± 0%
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Desktop 55%
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Workstation 39%
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System: Asus G752VT

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 53%, 189,769 samples817x
GPU
GeForce GTX 970MNvidiaBench 38%, 3,816 samples812x
SSD
SAMSUNG MZVLV128 128GBNvmeBench 95%, 1,834 samples219x
SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung  $81Bench 186%, 5,549 samples160x
MZVLV128HCGR-00000 128GBSamsungBench 93%, 538 samples47x
RAM
M471A1G43DB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 71%, 10,559 samples339x
M471A1G43DB0-CPB 1x8GBSamsungBench 38%, 9,007 samples90x
M471A1K43BB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 65%, 7,886 samples59x
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