The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black has 1664 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.18 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 3.92 TFLOPS.
The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 13 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 80 execution units.
Memory
Memory
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Memory Size
4 GB
16 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Clock
1.753 GHz
2.250 GHz
Memory Speed
7.0 Gbps
18.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
576 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
256 bit
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.
The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT has a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.250GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Base Clock
1.050 GHz
1.890 GHz
Boost Clock
1.178 GHz
2.310 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
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2.10 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black has a turbo clock of 1.178 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT is 2.310 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
TDP
145 W
335 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
100 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
2 x 8-Pin
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.
The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Fan-Type
Axial
Axial
Fan 1
2 x 95 mm
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Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black are cooled with a Air cooling.
The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.3
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x HDMI 2.1
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.2
2x DP 1.4a
DVI
1
--
USB-C
--
1
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Max. resolution
4096x2160
7680x4320
DirectX
12_1
12_2 (Ultimate)
Raytracing
No
Yes
DLSS / FSR
No
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
No
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
Decode / Encode
VP9
No
Decode / Encode
AV1
No
Decode
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This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.
Dimensions
Dimensions
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Length
290 mm
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Height
147 mm
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Width
40 mm
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Width (Slots)
2 Slots
3 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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