NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 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 300W)
AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 155% (3000MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
3712 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 7950 XT
+1545%
64.51 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
Navi III
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
2000 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
3000 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
20GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
800.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
84
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
5376
104
TMUs
336
56
ROPs
192
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
84
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
256 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
L3 Cache
80 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
576.0 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1008 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
129.0 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
64.51 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.016 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 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 XT+
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
