NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Vega 11

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 11, 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

243% significantly better overall score

658 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

310% significantly higher Blender score

70.66 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12376 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

175% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

12402 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

17392 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

13344 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

250% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1400 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

15 W

866% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

489% significantly higher pixel rate

11.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

98% significantly higher texture rate

61.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

98% significantly better floating point performance

1.97 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

136% significantly more shading units

704

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

136% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

599% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

297th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

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 Vega 11 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970 beats the Radeon Vega 11 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 970 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 11 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 11 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 is better than the Radeon Vega 11.