AMD Radeon RX 6800S vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Sep 2014
Generation
Mobility Radeon
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1800 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
2100 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
—
Shading Units
2048
1664
TMUs
128
104
ROPs
64
56
RT Cores
32
—
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
L3 Cache
32 MB
—
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
134.4 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
268.8 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
17.20 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
8.602 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
537.6 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 23
GM204
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
11.06 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
237 mm²
398 mm²
GPU Variant
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GM204-200-A1
Board Design
TDP
100W
148W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
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
6.5
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.