NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 570 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 570

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 213.30

$ 155.70 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

17% slightly better overall score

1929 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

40 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

40 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

3841 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

332.38 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

40200 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

41087 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

42870 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

45157 points

232% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

41113 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

47019 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1168 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1244 MHz

5% 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

0.18% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

3% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

65% significantly higher pixel rate

39.81 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

159.2 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

5.10 TFLOPS

29% 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

214th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2017 April

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 570 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 570 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 570 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 570 also 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 570 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 GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Radeon RX 570 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 is better than the Radeon RX 570.