NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 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 230W)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 119% (2581MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT +236%

13.21 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Radeon RX 6700 XT +252%

12779

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

305

Radeon RX 6700 XT +473%

1748

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

Radeon RX 6700 XT +246%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

Radeon RX 6700 XT +220%

96

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

Radeon RX 6700 XT +255%

142

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

Radeon RX 6700 XT +97%

83

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

Radeon RX 6700 XT +136%

104

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon RX 6700 XT +69%

166

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 6700 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

2321 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

-

1664

Shading Units

2560

104

TMUs

160

56

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

40

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.43 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

825.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

230W

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 22

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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