NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 460

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 460 4 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

177% significantly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

17 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

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

106% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1768 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

17920 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21824 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

20340 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

22320 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18277 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24052 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1090 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1200 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

75 W

93% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

243% significantly higher pixel rate

19.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

82% significantly higher texture rate

67.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

82% significantly better floating point performance

2.15 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

85% significantly more shading units

896

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

85% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

276th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2016 August

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 RX 460 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 460 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 460 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 460 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 460 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the Radeon RX 460.