GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 7900 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 300W)
Radeon RX 7900 XT 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 103% (2394MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
3712 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+1213%
51480
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+635%
26829
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+680%
13130
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+1180%
3905
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+580%
102
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+583%
205
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+647%
299
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+304%
170
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+286%
170
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+93%
190
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
Navi III
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1387 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2394 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
20GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
800.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
84
1664
Shading Units
5376
104
TMUs
336
56
ROPs
192
-
RT Cores
84
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
256 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
L3 Cache
80 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
459.6 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
804.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
103.0 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
51.48 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.609 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 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
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Navi 31
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 31 XT
(215-145000156)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
57.7 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
529 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
