NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7600 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 190W)

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 134% (2755MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7600 XT +475%

22.57 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Radeon RX 7600 XT +211%

11274

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

302

Radeon RX 7600 XT +328%

1295

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

Radeon RX 7600 XT +90%

80

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

Radeon RX 7600 XT +81%

80

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon RX 7600 XT +93%

190

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 7600 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1980 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2755 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1664

Shading Units

2048

104

TMUs

128

56

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

32

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

176.3 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

352.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

45.14 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.57 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

705.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 33

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 33 XT (215-163000047)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

13.3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

204 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

190W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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