NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 290.00 significantly less expensive

$ 659.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

11265 points

398% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

231 FPS

184 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

167 FPS

132 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

204 FPS

172 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

97 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

19436 points

432% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

2414.65 points

732% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

150488 points

1006% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

157812 points

441% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

100571 points

194% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

200077 points

1371% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

154801 points

428% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

157877 points

388% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

2015 MHz

91% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2250 MHz

91% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% 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

512 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

106% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

288 Gigapixels/s

336% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

648 Gigatexels/s

428% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

429% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

4608

176% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

288

176% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

128% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

33rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2020 November

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 6800 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6800 XT beats the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6800 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6800 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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 significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 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 Radeon RX 6800 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 970.