NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT, 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
$ 269.99
$ 99.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
10996 points
386% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
225 FPS
178 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
163 FPS
128 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
205 FPS
174 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
90 FPS
62 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points
3719 points
1% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
1584.42 points
446% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
90142 points
207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
115648 points
257% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
3130 MHz
165% 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
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s
320 GB/s
42% slightly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s
200.3 Gigapixels/s
203% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS
25.6 TFLOPS
553% significantly better floating point performance

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104
128
23% slightly more texture mapping units

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
35th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 9060 XT comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 9060 XT over the GeForce GTX 970.

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