AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580X 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

2318 points

60% significantly better overall score

1446 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

19 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41822 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

20012 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41822 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19440 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

924 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

29% 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

256 GB/s

112% significantly higher memory bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

75 W

146% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

49.82 Gigapixels/s

16% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

132% significantly higher texture rate

83.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

132% significantly better floating point performance

2.66 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

79% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

79% 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

189th of 586

238th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

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 580X vs GeForce GTX 970M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970M beats the Radeon RX 580X in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 580X has a slightly 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 580X also has a slightly 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 580X has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580X at 185 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970M is faster than the Radeon RX 580X.