NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon RX 6400

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6400 4 GB, 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

1446 points

1845 points

27% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS

42 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

28 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

36 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

16 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2280 points

1307% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

162 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points

302.98 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points

33586 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points

41105 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

924 MHz

1923 MHz

108% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

2321 MHz

123% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

120.3 GB/s

128 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

53 W

41% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.82 Gigapixels/s

74.3 Gigapixels/s

49% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

83.04 Gigatexels/s

111.4 Gigatexels/s

34% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.66 TFLOPS

3.57 TFLOPS

34% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

66% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586

217th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2022 January

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 970M vs Radeon RX 6400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6400 beats the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6400 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 6400 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6400 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6400 has a slightly lower TDP at 53 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970M at 75 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 Radeon RX 6400 is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.