AMD Radeon RX 7600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7600

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 7600 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 7600 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 125% (2655MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7600 +454%

21.75 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7600 +203%

11014

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7600 +153%

38

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7600 +186%

86

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7600 +225%

130

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 7600 +95%

82

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 7600 +86%

82

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 7600 +93%

190

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon RX 7600

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1720 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2655 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1664

128

TMUs

104

64

ROPs

56

-

32

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

32 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

43.50 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

679.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 33

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 33 XL

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

204 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

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

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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