NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1560MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT +83%

7.188 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Radeon RX 5600 XT +112%

7697

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

305

Radeon RX 5600 XT +170%

826

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

Radeon RX 5600 XT +106%

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

Radeon RX 5600 XT +113%

64

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

Radeon RX 5600 XT +147%

99

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

Radeon RX 5600 XT +19%

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

Radeon RX 5600 XT +38%

61

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon RX 5600 XT +73%

170

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

1664

Shading Units

2304

104

TMUs

144

56

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 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 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 10

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

251 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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