AMD Radeon RX 570 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 570 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 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

1929 points

33% slightly better overall score

1446 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

18 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3841 points

68% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2280 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

332.38 points

61% significantly higher Blender score

206.38 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41087 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

20012 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42870 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41113 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19440 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47019 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19602 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1168 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

924 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1244 MHz

19% slightly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

86% significantly higher memory bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

75 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

39.81 Gigapixels/s

49.82 Gigapixels/s

25% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

159.2 Gigatexels/s

91% significantly higher texture rate

83.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.10 TFLOPS

91% significantly better floating point performance

2.66 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

60% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% 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

213th of 586

238th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2014 October

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

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 570 vs GeForce GTX 970M benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 570 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970M in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 570 has a slightly 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 570 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 570 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 570 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 570 is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.