NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6400

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon RX 6400

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6400 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 128.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6400 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 97% (2321MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (53W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +9%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6400

3.565 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970 +1%

3625

Radeon RX 6400

3579

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

305

Radeon RX 6400 +9%

334

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970 +87%

15

Radeon RX 6400

8

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970 +50%

30

Radeon RX 6400

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970 +14%

40

Radeon RX 6400

35

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 6400

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1923 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2321 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

1664

Shading Units

768

104

TMUs

48

56

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

12

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

74.27 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.130 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.565 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

53W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 24

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XL (215-135000046)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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