NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 180W)
AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1725MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 5700
+102%
7.949 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Radeon RX 5700
+129%
8374
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Radeon RX 5700
+135%
3956
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
Radeon RX 5700
+133%
35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
Radeon RX 5700
+126%
68
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
Radeon RX 5700
+162%
105
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
Radeon RX 5700
+52%
64
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
Radeon RX 5700
+68%
74
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
Radeon RX 5700
+83%
180
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jul 2019
GeForce 900
Generation
Navi
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1465 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1725 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/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
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.4 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
248.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
15.90 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.949 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
496.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
180W
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 + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Navi 10
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 10 XL
(215-0917220)
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
6.8
