NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon RX 9060
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Aug 2025
Generation
GeForce 900M
Navi IV
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
924 MHz
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
2990 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
322.3GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1280
1792
TMUs
80
112
ROPs
48
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
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L2 Cache
1536 KB
4 MB
Compute Units
—
28
RT Cores
—
28
L3 Cache
—
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
191.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
334.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
21.43 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
669.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
42.86 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Navi 44
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Navi 44
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
RDNA 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
4 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
29.7 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
199 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
132W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x HDMI 2.1b2x DisplayPort 2.1a
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
6.8
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.