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GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 3090

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 3090: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — GeForce RTX 3090 outperforms GeForce GTX 970 on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both GPUs to compare value. The better performing GeForce RTX 3090 is 2174 days newer than GeForce GTX 970.

Advantages of GeForce GTX 970

  • Consumes up to 58% less energy than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 - 148 vs 350 Watts

Advantages of GeForce RTX 3090

  • Performs up to 126% better in Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales than GeForce GTX 970 - 129 vs 57 FPS
  • Up to 500% more VRAM memory than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 - 24 vs 4 GB
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Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Very High

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Logo
GeForce GTX 970

Desktop • Sep 19th, 2014


FPS

57

44%

Value, £/FPS

Price, £

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Logo
GeForce RTX 3090

Desktop • Sep 1st, 2020


FPS

129

100%

Value, £/FPS

£12.14/FPS

100%

Price, £

£1565.5

100%

FPS and Value Winner

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Graphics Card

Buy for £1,565.5 on Amazon

In Stock

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With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Very High

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Logo
GeForce GTX 970

Desktop • Sep 19th, 2014

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Logo
GeForce RTX 3090

Desktop • Sep 1st, 2020

Theoretical Performance

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Logo
GeForce GTX 970

Desktop • Sep 19th, 2014


Pixel Fillrate

65.97 GPixel/s

35%

Texel Fillrate

122.5 GTexel/s

22%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Logo
GeForce RTX 3090

Desktop • Sep 1st, 2020


Pixel Fillrate

189.8 GPixel/s

100%

Texel Fillrate

556 GTexel/s

100%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Logo

GeForce GTX 970

vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Logo

GeForce RTX 3090

Sep 19th, 2014Release Date
Sep 1st, 2020
GeForce 900GenerationGeForce 30
$329
MSRP$1499
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortOutputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pinPower Connectors1x 12-pin
Desktop
Segment
Desktop
4 GBMemory
24 GB
GDDR5TypeGDDR6X
256-bitBus384-bit
224.4 GB/sBandwidth
936.2 GB/s
1050 MHzBase Clock Speed
1395 MHz
1178 MHzBoost Clock Speed
1695 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock Speed1219 MHz

PCs Using GeForce GTX 970 or GeForce RTX 3090

With selected game settings

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