NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 470

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 4069.00 significantly less expensive

$ 4438.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

23% slightly better overall score

1827 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

38 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

38 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

3668 points

0.58% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

38292 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

39085 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

41542 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

41978 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

33559 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

42112 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

926 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1206 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

211 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

120 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

70% significantly higher pixel rate

38.59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

154.4 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

4.94 TFLOPS

26% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

2048

23% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

128

23% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

219th 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 470 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 470 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 970 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 470 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 470 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 470 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Radeon RX 470.