AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6800

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 6800 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 79% (2105MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 +312%

16.17 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 +347%

16233

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +333%

65

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +290%

117

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +320%

168

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +133%

98

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +186%

126

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +73%

170

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon RX 6800

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2105 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1664

240

TMUs

104

96

ROPs

56

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

202.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

505.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

32.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

1010 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

148W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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