GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 7500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 7500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 216.0GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 7500 XT 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 95% (2300MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (100W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
Radeon RX 7500 XT
+140%
9421
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
Navi III
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1452 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2300 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
96bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
216.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
1664
Shading Units
1024
104
TMUs
64
56
ROPs
32
-
RT Cores
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
73.60 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
147.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
18.84 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.421 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
294.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
100W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a
2x DisplayPort 2.1
1x USB Type-C
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Navi 33
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 33
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
13.3 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
204 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
