NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Mar 2025
Generation
GeForce 900
Navi IV
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1660 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
2970 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
644.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
4096
TMUs
104
256
ROPs
56
128
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128
L2 Cache
2 MB
8 MB
Compute Units
—
64
Tensor Cores
—
128
RT Cores
—
64
L3 Cache
—
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
380.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
760.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
48.66 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
1.521 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
97.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Navi 48
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Navi 48 XTX
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
RDNA 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
53.9 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
357 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
304W
Suggested PSU
300 W
700 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
6.8
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
30,445
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
14,633
OctaneBench
77
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
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Blender
305
—
3DMark Speed Way
—
6,403
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.