AMD Steam Machine GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GPU · Specs Compare

GPU AMD Steam Machine GPU AMD · 2026-01

GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA · 2014-09

Graphics Card

Release Date

Jan 2026

Sep 2014

Generation

Console GPU

GeForce 900

Type

Desktop

Desktop

Bus Interface

—

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1720 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2450 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

8GB

4GB

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128bit

256bit

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

224.4GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units

28

—

Shading Units

1792

1664

TMUs

112

104

ROPs

64

56

RT Cores

28

—

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

L3 Cache

32 MB

—

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

156.8 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

274.4 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP16 (half)

35.12 TFLOPS

—

FP32 (float)

17.56 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

548.8 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

Navi 33

GM204

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

Maxwell 2.0

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Process Size

6 nm

28 nm

Transistors

13.3 billion

5.2 billion

Die Size

204 mm²

398 mm²

GPU Variant

—

GM204-200-A1

Board Design

TDP

110W

148W

Outputs

No outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

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

▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.