NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Jan 2022
Generation
GeForce 900
Mobility Radeon
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
2000 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
2400 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
64bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
144.0GB/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
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16
RT Cores
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16
L3 Cache
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16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
76.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
153.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
4.915 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
307.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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9.830 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Navi 24
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Navi 24 XM
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
50W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
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
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Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
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OctaneBench
77
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
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Blender
305
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.