NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 225W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1905MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT +148%

9.754 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Radeon RX 5700 XT +161%

9474

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

305

Radeon RX 5700 XT +268%

1124

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

Radeon RX 5700 XT +160%

39

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

Radeon RX 5700 XT +146%

74

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

Radeon RX 5700 XT +177%

111

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

Radeon RX 5700 XT +54%

65

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

Radeon RX 5700 XT +81%

80

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon RX 5700 XT +89%

186

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

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

1605 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1905 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

40

-

1664

Shading Units

2560

104

TMUs

160

56

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.9 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

304.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

19.51 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.754 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

609.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

225W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 10

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

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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