AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

amd

Brand

8GB HBM2

Memory

4096

Cores

483.8 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX Vega 64

N/A Aug 2017 View Details

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nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

1664

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 970

N/A Sep 2014 View Details

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

8GB HBM2 295W N/A Aug 2017

Radeon RX Vega 64

$499 • Aug 2017

GeForce GTX 970

$329 • Sep 2014

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

4GB GDDR5 148W N/A Sep 2014

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Memory Size	8 GB	4 GB
Memory Type	HBM2	GDDR5
TDP	295 W	148 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1546 MHz	1178 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	224.4 GB/s
Process Size	14nm	28nm
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Maxwell 2.0
Shading Units	4096	1664
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	256	104
ROPs	64	56
Memory Bus	2048-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	945 MHz	1753 MHz
Pixel Rate	98.94 GPixel/s	65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	483.8 GTexel/s	224.4 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	12.66 GFLOPS	3.92 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	495 mm²	398 mm²
Transistors	12500 Million	5200 Million
Required PSU	600 W	300 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.1
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	GlobalFoundries	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

7509 (+110%)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

3574

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

52807 (+82%)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

28989

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

90.6 FPS (+94%)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

46.8 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

14143 (+47%)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

9637

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Game Benchmarks Comparison (213 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+60%)

AVG 193 FPS

MIN 159 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+55%)

AVG 150 FPS

MIN 134 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

2160p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+56%)

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+39%)

AVG 135 FPS

MIN 127 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 92 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+54%)

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

2160p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+55%)

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+95%)

AVG 117 FPS

MIN 95 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+110%)

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+114%)

AVG 47 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+100%)

AVG 146 FPS

MIN 133 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+100%)

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+114%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+123%)

AVG 176 FPS

MIN 164 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+153%)

AVG 114 FPS

MIN 108 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+152%)

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+118%)

AVG 135 FPS

MIN 92 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+122%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX Vega 64 (+138%)

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

GeForce GTX 970

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Wins!

Based on 210 benchmarks across 71 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX Vega 64

+84.7%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 970