Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano vs GeForce GTX 970

Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
Memory: 8192Mb HBM2DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Aug 2017
Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
GeForce GTX 970
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 970

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970

102 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano

HWBench recommends Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 64 NanoGeForce GTX 970
GPU NameVega 10 (Vega 10 XT)vsGM204 (GM204-200-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size484 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors12,500 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders4096vs1664
Compute Units64vs13
Core clock1156 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs64vs56
TMUs256vs104

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 64 NanoGeForce GTX 970
Memory TypeHBM2vsGDDR5
Bus Width2048 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX Vega 64 NanoGeForce GTX 970
TDP250 wattsvs148 watts
Release Date8 Aug 2017vs19 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
    79.81 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    58.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
    319.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    109.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
    409.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    224.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
    10215.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 970
    3494.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better