AMD Radeon RX 7700 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7700

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 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 7700 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 121% (2600MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7700 +715%

31.95 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7700

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1900 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2600 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

48

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

1664

192

TMUs

104

96

ROPs

56

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

64 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

249.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

499.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

63.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

31.95 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

148W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 32

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

346 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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