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 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

6,290

369

geekbench_opencl

133,741

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

165,532

31,001

passmark_directx_10

141

46

passmark_directx_11

281

71

passmark_directx_12

74

41

passmark_directx_9

343

143

passmark_g2d

1,280

764

passmark_g3d

25,381

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

14,737

4,073

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 9070

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

3,584

1,664 -53.6%

Shaders

3,584

1,664 -53.6%

TMUs

224

104 -53.6%

ROPs

128

56 -56.3%

Compute Units

56

—

Clocks

Base Clock

1330 MHz

1050 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

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

16,384

4,096 -75.0%

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

644.6 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

—

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

8 MB

2 MB

L3 Cache

64 MB

—

L0 Cache

32 KB per WGP

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

564.5 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

36.13 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

1,129.0 GFLOPS (1:32)

122.5 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

148 W

TDP (W)

220

148 -32.7%

Suggested PSU

550 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

RDNA 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Navi 48

GM204

Generation

Navi IV (RX 9000)

GeForce 900

Process Size

4 nm

28 nm

Transistors

53,900 million

5,200 million

Die Size

357 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

151.0M / mm²

13.1M / 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

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 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

329 USD

Production

Active

End-of-life

Predecessor

Navi III

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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