NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
243% significantly better overall score
658 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS
32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points
2727% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
129 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
227% significantly higher Blender score
88.40 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points
147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
11765 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points
132% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
14652 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points
18088 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
28407 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
210459 points
550% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
298th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Radeon in gaming.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the Radeon.

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