AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Price

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$ 488.33

$ 369.00

$ 119.33 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

138% significantly better overall score

2262 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

35 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

28 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

162% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3647 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

237% significantly higher Blender score

289.94 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

68311 points

402% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

13595 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

143% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29153 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34107 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

94209 points

592% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

13595 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

29277 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

171% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32348 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

52% significantly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

61% significantly higher boost clock speed

1178 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

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

448 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

145 W

55% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

84% significantly higher pixel rate

65.97 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

148% significantly higher texture rate

122.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

148% significantly better floating point performance

3.92 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

53% significantly more shading units

1664

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

53% significantly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 586

193rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce GTX 970 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 970 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 Radeon RX 5700 XT 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 5700 XT has significantly more memory with 8 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 addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5700 XT over the GeForce GTX 970.