NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT 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)
Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)
AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1226MHz vs 1178MHz)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 560 XT
+12%
4.394 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+2%
3646
Radeon RX 560 XT
3561
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Radeon RX 560 XT
1671
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Mar 2019
GeForce 900
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1074 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1226 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
1792
104
TMUs
112
56
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.23 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
137.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.394 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.394 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
274.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 LE1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
