NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 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 260W)

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 129% (2700MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT +464%

22.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi IV(RX 9000)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

2210 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2700 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2438 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

624.1GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

-

1664

Shading Units

4096

104

TMUs

256

56

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

64

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

259.2 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

691.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

44.24 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.12 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

691.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

260W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 48

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 48 XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

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