NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XTX 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 330W)
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 107% (2435MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
3456 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6900 XTX
+535%
24.93 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2075 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2435 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
576.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
80
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
5120
104
TMUs
320
56
ROPs
128
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
80
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
128 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
311.7 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
779.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
49.87 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
24.93 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.558 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
330W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Navi 21
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 21 XTXH
(215-121000247)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
26.8 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
520 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
