GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce GTX 970 (15/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 10)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 12)
GeForce GTX 970
GeForce

GeForce GTX 970

15/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5080
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5080

84/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 10.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 12.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 12101 75605
Night Raid 47583 199650
Port Royal 4353 23275
Time Spy 3665 33000
Wild Life Extreme 6976 69617
Solar Bay — 161489

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 5.2 12.0
DLSS No DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.2 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 43 239
1080p Ultra 34 205
1440p Ultra 23 165
4K Ultra 12 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 38322115 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 77563716 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 272113- 21319213861
Far Cry 6 47432913 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 58332616 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 241614- 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 252215- 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 49442714 306276214111
The Witcher 3 46352211 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 12902 69068
Face Detection (HP) 7074 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 1852 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 3622 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8987 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 1576 7905
Object Detection (SP) 2425 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 43726 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 86714 349205
Text Classification (SP) 1446 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 77.1 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 2.08 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 38.1 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.17 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.85 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 1.28 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2443 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 92.9 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GM204 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $329 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Released September 19, 2014 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5070 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Recommended CPU — -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1050 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1178 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 13 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 56 112
Shading Units 1664 10752
Tensor Cores No 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 104 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 7000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1753 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 4 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 71 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 41 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 763 1397
GPU Compute 4079 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 398 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 28 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 148 W 360 W
Transistor Count 5 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 12.56 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 66 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 123 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 970 GeForce RTX 5080
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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