NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 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 355W)
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 112% (2498MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
4480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
+1466%
61.39 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
+736%
30512
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
+807%
15278
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
+1434%
4680
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
+746%
127
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
+660%
228
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
+675%
310
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
+316%
175
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
+297%
175
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
+93%
190
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
Navi III
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1929 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2498 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
960.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
96
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
6144
104
TMUs
384
56
ROPs
192
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
96
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
256 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
L3 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
479.6 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
959.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
122.8 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
61.39 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.918 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
355W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 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 31
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 31 XTX
(215-145000146)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
57.7 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
529 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
