NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB 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 160W)
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 166% (3130MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB
+554%
25.64 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jun 2025
GeForce 900
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1700 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
3130 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
2048
104
TMUs
128
56
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
200.3 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
400.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
51.28 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
25.64 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
801.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
160W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
2x DisplayPort 2.1a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Navi 44
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT 16GB
(215-176400102)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
4 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
29.7 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
199 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
6.8
