AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
vs
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is based on the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and has 3840 texture shaders and 60 execution units.

EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, which has 1664 shaders and 13 execution units.
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT GPU EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Navi 32 XT GPU Chip GM204-200-A1
RDNA 3 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
60 Streaming Multiprocessors 13
3840 Shader 1664
96 Render Output Units 56
240 Texture Units 104
60 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT has 16 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 624 GB/s.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

16 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.438 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
19.5 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
624 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT clocks in the base with up to 1.800 GHz. The base frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming is 1.140 GHz.

1.800 GHz Base Clock 1.140 GHz
2.430 GHz Boost Clock 1.279 GHz
2.12 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is 263 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming has a TDP of 145 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

263 W TDP 145 W
-- TDP (up) --
96 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1a HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v2.1 DP Ports 1x DP v1.2
-- DVI Ports 2
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
Addressable LED LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
Decode / Encode AV1 No
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 No

Dimensions

The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT is 267 mm long, 135 mm high and 50 mm wide.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming is 241 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

267 mm Length 241 mm
135 mm Height 111 mm
50 mm Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

The AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT was released in Q3/2023 at a price of 499 $.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC Gaming was introduced in Q3/2014 at a price of 329 $.

-- Part-no 04G-P4-1972-KR
Q3/2023 Release date Q3/2014
499 $ Launch Price 329 $
5 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
10409

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
3748

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
38 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
82 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
126 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
41 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
84 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
132 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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