AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1905MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +148%

9.754 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5700 XT +161%

9482

GeForce GTX 970

3622

Blender

Radeon RX 5700 XT +876%

2950

GeForce GTX 970

302

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +160%

39

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +146%

74

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +177%

111

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +54%

65

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +81%

80

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +89%

186

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1905 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1664

160

TMUs

104

64

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

148W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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