NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 GRE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 220W)
AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 137% (2790MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9070 GRE
+774%
34.28 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 2025
GeForce 900
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1330 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2790 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
48
-
SM Count
46
1664
Shading Units
3072
104
TMUs
192
56
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
96
-
RT Cores
48
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
267.8 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
535.7 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
68.57 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
34.28 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1071.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
220W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Navi 48
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
4 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
357 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
12.0
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
