NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM 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 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1845MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (110W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +32%

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

-

1664

Shading Units

1408

104

TMUs

88

56

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

110W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 14

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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