NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M 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

13% slightly better overall score

1993 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

31 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

38 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

4472 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

358.91 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

36948 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

0.12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34067 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

38725 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

44878 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1375 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1645 MHz

39% 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

0.18% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

85 W

70% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

25% slightly higher pixel rate

52.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

144.76 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

4.63 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

18% slightly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

18% 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

209th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 5500M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970 beats the Radeon RX 5500M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5500M 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 5500M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500M has a significantly lower TDP at 85 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 5500M.