NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT 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 304W)
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 152% (2970MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+1141%
48.66 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+735%
30445
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+769%
14633
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Mar 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
1660 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2970 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
4096
104
TMUs
256
56
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
128
-
RT Cores
64
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
380.2 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
760.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
97.32 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.66 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.521 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
304W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 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 XT
(215-176600315)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 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
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
