NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M 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
2735 points
20% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
61 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
42 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
53 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
24 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
380.88 points
31% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
45145 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
53865 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

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
300% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s
55% significantly higher memory bandwidth
144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s
182.1 Gigatexels/s
48% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS
5.8 TFLOPS
47% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

56
64
14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
165th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
2023 January

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
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GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 6550M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6550M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6550M is better than the GeForce GTX 970.

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