NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
VS
AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
VS
AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

229
Place in performance rating
244
30.41
Value for money (0-100)
no data
Maxwell
Architecture
Polaris
GM204
Code name
Polaris 21
Laptop
Type
Laptop
7 October 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
5 January 2017 (4 years ago)
$2,560.89
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$848 (0.3x MSRP)
Price now
$520
4.32
Value for money
9.97
GM204
GPU code name
Polaris 11
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1280
Pipelines
1024
924 MHz
Core clock speed
1172 MHz
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
1202 MHz
5,200 million
Transistor count
3,000 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
no data
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
83.04
Texture fill rate
81.60
2,657 gflops
Floating-point performance
2,611 gflops
1280
CUDA cores
no data
1280
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1038 MHz
Boost clock speed
1275 MHz
5,200 million
Number of transistors
3,000 million
no data
Thermal design power (TDP)
65 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile.

MXM-B (3.0)
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
None
Supplementary power connectors
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large
Laptop size
large
+
SLI options
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PCI Express 3.0
Bus support
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
6 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
192 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
2500 MHz
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
120 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
92.8 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs
+
G-SYNC support
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+
HDMI
no data
+
VGA аnalog display support
no data
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
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Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile is the additional functionality.

2.0
GPU Boost
no data
+
CUDA
no data
+
GeForce Experience
no data
+
Optimus
no data
+
Ansel
no data
+
GameStream
no data
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
no data
+
GameWorks
no data
no data
FreeSync
+
+
BatteryBoost
no data
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
no data
no data
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
+
+
DSR
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.5
OpenGL
4.6
1.1.126
Vulkan
1.2.131
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
1.1
OpenCL
2.0

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M or AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

1.26% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1280 vs 1024)

More maximum RAM amount (6 GB vs 4 GB)

More memory bandwidth (120 GB/s vs 92.8 GB/s)

G-SYNC support

Advantages of AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

Cheaper ($520 vs $848 (0.3x MSRP))

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M or AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M versus AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile