AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 116% (2544MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

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

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 245W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7700 XT +797%

35.17 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7700 XT +368%

16991

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Blender

Radeon RX 7700 XT +615%

2182

GeForce GTX 970

305

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7700 XT +326%

64

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7700 XT +326%

128

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7700 XT +445%

218

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 7700 XT +161%

110

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 7700 XT +154%

112

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 7700 XT +93%

190

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon RX 7700 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1435 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2544 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

54

Compute Units

-

3456

Shading Units

1664

216

TMUs

104

96

ROPs

56

-

54

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

48 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

244.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

549.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

70.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

1099 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

245W

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 32 XL (215-180000076)

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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