GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
CORE STATE
Navi 48
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2970 MHz
TDP
304 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
RDNA 4.0
PROCESS
4 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2025
VS
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
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
geekbench_metal
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 9070 XT
GTX 970
Core Specs
Shading Units
4,096
1,664
-59.4%
Shaders
4,096
1,664
-59.4%
TMUs
256
104
-59.4%
ROPs
128
56
-56.3%
Compute Units
64
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1660 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
2970 MHz
1178 MHz
Game Clock
2400 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
380.2 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
760.3 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
48.66 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
1.521 TFLOPS (1:32)
122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
97.32 TFLOPS (2:1)
—
AI/RT
RT Cores
64
—
Matrix Cores
128
—
Power
TDP
304 W
148 W
TDP (W)
304
148
-51.3%
Suggested PSU
700 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
599 USD
329 USD
Production
Active
End-of-life
Predecessor
Navi III
GeForce 700
Successor
—
GeForce 10