NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1 GB, 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

328% significantly better overall score

528 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 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

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

488% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4950 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

491% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

300% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

322nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 6870 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970 beats the Radeon HD 6870 in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the Radeon HD 6870.