NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Jan 2022
Generation
GeForce 900
Navi II
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
2310 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
2815 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2248 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
64bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
143.9GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
1024
TMUs
104
64
ROPs
56
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
16
RT Cores
-
16
L3 Cache
-
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
90.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
5.765 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
360.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
11.53 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Navi 24
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Navi 24 XT(215-135000006)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
RDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
6 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
5.4 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
107 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
107W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.11x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
📊 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
-