GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 9070

CORE STATE Navi 48

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2520 MHz

TDP 220 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 4.0

nm

PROCESS 4 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 960

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

6,290

162

geekbench_opencl

133,741

18,751

geekbench_vulkan

165,532

20,495

passmark_directx_10

141

N/A

passmark_directx_11

281

N/A

passmark_directx_12

74

N/A

passmark_directx_9

343

N/A

passmark_g2d

1,280

N/A

passmark_g3d

25,381

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

14,737

N/A

geekbench_metal

N/A

8,773

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 9070

GTX 960

Core Specs

Shading Units

3,584

1,024 -71.4%

Shaders

3,584

1,024 -71.4%

TMUs

224

64 -71.4%

ROPs

128

32 -75.0%

Compute Units

56

—

Clocks

Base Clock

1330 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1178 MHz

Game Clock

2070 MHz

—

Memory Clock

2518 MHz 20.1 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

16 GB

2 GB

VRAM (MB)

16,384

2,048 -87.5%

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

644.6 GB/s

112.2 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

—

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

8 MB

1024 KB

L3 Cache

64 MB

—

L0 Cache

32 KB per WGP

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

37.70 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

564.5 GTexel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

36.13 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

1,129.0 GFLOPS (1:32)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

72.25 TFLOPS (2:1)

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AI/RT

RT Cores

56

—

Matrix Cores

112

—

Power

TDP

220 W

120 W

TDP (W)

220

120 -45.5%

Suggested PSU

550 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

RDNA 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Navi 48

GM206

Generation

Navi IV (RX 9000)

GeForce 900

Process Size

4 nm

28 nm

Transistors

53,900 million

2,940 million

Die Size

357 mm²

228 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

151.0M / mm²

12.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

2.2

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

—

241 mm 9.5 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

199 USD

Production

Active

End-of-life

Predecessor

Navi III

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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