NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1200MHz vs 1178MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)