AMD Radeon RX 6400 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6400 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6400 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6400 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 97% (2321MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (53W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6400

3.565 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +9%

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6400

3579

GeForce GTX 970 +1%

3625

Blender

Radeon RX 6400 +7%

325

GeForce GTX 970

302

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6400

8

GeForce GTX 970 +87%

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6400

20

GeForce GTX 970 +50%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6400

35

GeForce GTX 970 +14%

40

Radeon RX 6400

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GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1923 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2321 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

1664

48

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

12

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

74.27 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

7.130 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.565 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

222.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 24 XL (215-135000046)

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

53W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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