AMD Radeon RX 6800 3456SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Unknown
Sep 2014
Generation
Navi II
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1700 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
54
—
Shading Units
3456
1664
TMUs
216
104
ROPs
96
56
RT Cores
54
—
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
L3 Cache
128 MB
—
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
216.0 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
486.0 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
31.10 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
15.55 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
972.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 21
GM204
GPU Variant
Navi 21 ES(215-121000066)
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
26.8 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
520 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
148W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
CUDA
—
5.2
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,683
OctaneBench
—
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
40
Blender
—
305
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.