NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 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
$ 360.99 significantly less expensive
$ 729.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
20954 points
826% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
421 FPS
374 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
302 FPS
268 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
380 FPS
349 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
172 FPS
144 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points
7249 points
98% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
3144.45 points
984% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
160380 points
447% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
194640 points
501% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
2970 MHz
152% 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
640 GB/s
185% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s
380.2 Gigapixels/s
476% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS
48.7 TFLOPS
1142% significantly better floating point performance

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
8th 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 9070 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 9070 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 970.

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