NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1560MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (125W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 OEM +63%

6.39 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

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Radeon RX 5600 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1664

Shading Units

2048

104

TMUs

128

56

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.78 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.390 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

399.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 10

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XE

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

125W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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