NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 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 335W)
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 96% (2310MHz 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 6950 XT
+503%
23.65 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+490%
21537
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+526%
10545
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+891%
3023
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+473%
86
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+420%
156
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+435%
214
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+209%
130
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+245%
152
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+92%
189
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1860 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2310 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
295.7 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
739.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
47.31 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.65 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1478 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
335W
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
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Navi 21
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 21 KXTX
(215-121000289)
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
