GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 7600 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 190W)
Radeon RX 7600 XT 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 134% (2755MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
Radeon RX 7600 XT
+475%
22570
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Radeon RX 7600 XT
+208%
11241
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Radeon RX 7600 XT
+214%
5289
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
Radeon RX 7600 XT
+333%
1323
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
Radeon RX 7600 XT
+166%
40
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
Radeon RX 7600 XT
+200%
90
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
Radeon RX 7600 XT
+250%
140
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
Radeon RX 7600 XT
+90%
80
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
Radeon RX 7600 XT
+81%
80
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
Radeon RX 7600 XT
+93%
190
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2024
GeForce 900
Generation
Navi III
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1980 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2755 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
1664
Shading Units
2048
104
TMUs
128
56
ROPs
64
-
RT Cores
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
176.3 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
352.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
45.14 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
22.57 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
705.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
190W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a
3x DisplayPort 2.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Navi 33
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 33 XT
(215-163000047)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
13.3 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
204 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.7