NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6400
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon Pro W6400 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 98% (2331MHz vs 1178MHz)
Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+9%
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro W6400
3.58 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+1%
3646
Radeon Pro W6400
3604
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
+2%
1683
Radeon Pro W6400
1644
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
+38%
305
Radeon Pro W6400
221
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
+87%
15
Radeon Pro W6400
8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
+50%
30
Radeon Pro W6400
20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
+14%
40
Radeon Pro W6400
35
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2331 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2331 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
768
104
TMUs
48
56
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
12
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
L3 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
74.59 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
111.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.161 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.580 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
223.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Navi 24
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 24 XL-W
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
5.4 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
107 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
6.6
