AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
vs
GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and the GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is based on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and has 6144 texture shaders and 96 execution units.

GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, which has 1664 shaders and 13 execution units.
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Navi 31 GPU Chip GM204-200-A1
RDNA 3 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
96 Streaming Multiprocessors 13
6144 Shader 1664
192 Render Output Units 56
384 Texture Units 104
96 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has 24 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 960 GB/s.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

24 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
20.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
960 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX clocks in the base with up to 1.900 GHz. The base frequency of the GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition is 1.164 GHz.

1.900 GHz Base Clock 1.164 GHz
2.500 GHz Boost Clock 1.317 GHz
2.30 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is 355 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition has a TDP of 145 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

355 W TDP 145 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
40 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 7900 XTX.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting 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 7900 XTX is 287 mm long, 123 mm high and 51 mm wide.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition is 271 mm long, 124 mm high and 41 mm wide.

287 mm Length 271 mm
123 mm Height 124 mm
51 mm Width 41 mm
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 7900 XTX was released in Q4/2022 at a price of 999 $.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition was introduced in Q4/2014 at a price of 329 $.

-- Part-no 97NQH6DNB4TX
Q4/2022 Release date Q4/2014
999 $ Launch Price 329 $
5 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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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 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
15913

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
5907

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 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
60 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
122 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
176 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 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
52 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
95 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB GDDR6
142 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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