NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 369.00
$ 260.99 significantly less expensive
$ 629.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
14121 points
524% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
286 FPS
239 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
208 FPS
173 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
257 FPS
225 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
122 FPS
95 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points
4065 points
11% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
2478.22 points
754% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points
159528 points
1073% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points
170008 points
483% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points
114610 points
236% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points
208130 points
1430% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
167644 points
472% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
171121 points
429% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz
1825 MHz
73% 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
720 Gigatexels/s
487% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
487% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664
5120
207% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104
320
207% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

56
128
128% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
24th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6900 XT 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 6900 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6900 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 6900 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6900 XT over the GeForce GTX 970.

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