NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M 12 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

4979 points

120% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

104 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

78 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

87 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

43 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

11742 points

221% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

1392.24 points

380% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

93784 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

55272 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

113721 points

736% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

87678 points

199% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

97983 points

202% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

2300 MHz

119% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2581 MHz

119% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

384 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

Identical

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

150% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

368 Gigatexels/s

200% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

11.78 TFLOPS

200% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

2560

53% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

160

53% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

102nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2021 May

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 6800M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6800M has a significantly 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 6800M also has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6800M has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 970 and the Radeon RX 6800M have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6800M over the GeForce GTX 970.