NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580X 8 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

2318 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

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47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

Identical

35 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

51 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

19 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

41822 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

41822 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1257 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1340 MHz

13% 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

256 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

27% slightly lower TDP

185 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

53% significantly higher pixel rate

42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

192.96 Gigatexels/s

57% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

6.18 TFLOPS

57% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

2304

38% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

144

38% 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

189th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2018 March

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 580X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970 beats the Radeon RX 580X in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 580X 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 580X 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 580X has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580X at 185 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 580X.