AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 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 7950 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 155% (3000MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

3712 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7950 XT +1545%

64.51 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XT

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

2000 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

3000 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

800.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

84

Compute Units

-

5376

Shading Units

1664

336

TMUs

104

192

ROPs

56

-

84

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

80 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

576.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

1008 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

129.0 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

64.51 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

148W

700 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 31

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 31 XT+

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

529 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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