NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Vega 3

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 3, 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

1937% significantly better overall score

111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

780% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

414 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

586% significantly higher Blender score

42.23 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

563% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4396 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

593% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4915 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

178% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4880 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

637% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3968 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

457% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5804 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

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

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

1399% significantly higher pixel rate

4.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

828% significantly higher texture rate

13.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

766% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

766% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

492nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2019 November

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 3 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 3 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 also 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 3 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 is better than the Radeon Vega 3.