NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 30.99 slightly less expensive

$ 399.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

12665 points

459% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

267 FPS

220 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

178 FPS

143 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

245 FPS

214 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

104 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3316 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

2098.98 points

623% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

127642 points

335% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

142477 points

340% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1800 MHz

71% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2544 MHz

115% 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

432 GB/s

92% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

68% significantly lower TDP

245 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

244 Gigapixels/s

269% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

550 Gigatexels/s

348% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

18.02 TFLOPS

359% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

4096

146% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

216

107% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

71% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

29th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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 7700 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7700 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7700 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 7700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 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 7700 XT at 245 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7700 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 970.