AMD Radeon RX 570 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 570 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 570

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1206-1244 MHz vs 1178 MHz
• 1460.8x more texture fill rate: 159.23 GTexel/s vs 109 billion / sec
• Around 23% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1664
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
• 1000x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
• Around 27% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 36107 vs 28498
• Around 1% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 105.688 vs 105.107
• 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 79.029 vs 35.714
• Around 6% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 520.089 vs 490.688
• 2.4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 880 vs 369

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

• Around 13% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 926-1168 MHz
• 768.6x better floating-point performance: 3,920 gflops vs 5.1 TFLOPs
• Around 1% lower typical power consumption: 148 Watt vs 150 Watt
• Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9640 vs 6967
• Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 626
• Around 13% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1225.96 vs 1083.926
• Around 6% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 8.737 vs 8.251
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 11499 vs 9172
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3698 vs 3624
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 11499 vs 9172
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3698 vs 3624

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 570
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	6967 9640
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	626 766
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	36107 28498
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	105.688 105.107
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1083.926 1225.96
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8.251 8.737
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	79.029 35.714
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	520.089 490.688
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9172 11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3624 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3346 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9172 11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3624 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3346 3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	880 369

Compare specifications (specs)