AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Jul 2025

Sep 2014

Generation

Radeon Pro Navi

GeForce 900

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1660 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2920 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

2518 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

32GB

4GB

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256bit

Bandwidth

644.6GB/s

224.4GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units

64

-

Shading Units

4096

1664

TMUs

256

104

ROPs

128

56

Tensor Cores

128

-

RT Cores

64

-

L2 Cache

8 MB

2 MB

L3 Cache

64 MB

-

L1 Cache

-

48 KB (per SMM)

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

373.8 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

747.5 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP16 (half)

95.68 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

47.84 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1495.0 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

Navi 48

GM204

GPU Variant

Navi 48 XTW

GM204-200-A1

Architecture

RDNA 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

4 nm

28 nm

Transistors

53.9 billion

5.2 billion

Die Size

357 mm²

398 mm²

Board Design

TDP

300W

148W

Suggested PSU

700 W

300 W

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

2.2

3.0

Vulkan

1.4

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