AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 8800 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 8800 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 106% (2430MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 8800 XT +407%

19.91 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 8800 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi IV(RX 8000)

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1295 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2430 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

1664

256

TMUs

104

96

ROPs

56

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

64 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

233.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

622.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

39.81 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

19.91 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

148W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 48

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 48 XT

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

RDNA 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

Unknown

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

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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