AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2018 vs 19 September 2014
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1178 MHz vs 1100 MHz
13x more pipelines: 1664 vs 128
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 244
19.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9640 vs 506
8.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 28498 vs 3208

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines	1664 vs 128
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	766 vs 244
PassMark - G3D Mark	9640 vs 506
Geekbench - OpenCL	28498 vs 3208

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

244

766

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

506

9640

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

3208

28498

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
PassMark - G2D Mark	244	766
PassMark - G3D Mark	506	9640
Geekbench - OpenCL	3208	28498
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		105.107
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1225.96
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		8.737
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.714
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		490.688
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		369

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GM204
Launch date	7 Jan 2018	19 September 2014
Place in performance rating	977	371
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$329
Price now		$407.76
Value for money (0-100)		28.59
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1178 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	128	1664
Transistor count	4500 million	5,200 million
Core clock speed		1050 MHz
CUDA cores		1664
Floating-point performance		3,920 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		98 °C
Texture fill rate		109 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		148 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.4
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
SLI options		4x
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pins
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		224 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		7.0 GB/s
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround