NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 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 245W)
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 116% (2544MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 7700 XT
+797%
35.17 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Radeon RX 7700 XT
+368%
17075
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Radeon RX 7700 XT
+366%
7853
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
Radeon RX 7700 XT
+615%
2182
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
Radeon RX 7700 XT
+326%
64
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
Radeon RX 7700 XT
+326%
128
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
Radeon RX 7700 XT
+445%
218
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
Radeon RX 7700 XT
+161%
110
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
Radeon RX 7700 XT
+154%
112
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
Radeon RX 7700 XT
+93%
190
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Aug 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
Navi III
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1435 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2544 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
54
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
3456
104
TMUs
216
56
ROPs
96
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
54
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
L3 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
244.2 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
549.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
70.34 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
35.17 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1099 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
245W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a
2x DisplayPort 2.1
1x USB Type-C
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Navi 32
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 32 XL
(215-180000076)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
28.1 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
346 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
