Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) vs GeForce GTX 970M

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GTX 970M and Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000), covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

GTX 970M
2014
3 GB GDDR5
14.83
+146%

GTX 970M outperforms RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) by a whopping 146% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking354584
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency12.7628.07
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGM204Vega Renoir
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 October 2014 (10 years ago)7 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,560.89 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1280384
Core clock speed924 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed1038 MHz1500 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)unknown15 Watt
Texture fill rate83.04no data
Floating-point processing power2.657 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48no data
TMUs80no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI Express 3.0no data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount3 GBno data
Memory bus width192 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth120 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsno data
VGA аnalog display support+no data
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support+no data
HDMI+-
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream+-
GeForce ShadowPlay+-
GPU Boost2.0no data
GameWorks+-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder+-
Optimus+-
BatteryBoost+-
Ansel+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12_1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.5no data
OpenCL1.1no data
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA+-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 970M 14.83
+146%
RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 6.04

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

GTX 970M 9878
+135%
RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 4210

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

GTX 970M 7463
+167%
RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 2793

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

GTX 970M 51247
+134%
RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 21857

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

GTX 970M 274626
+50.4%
RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 182608

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

GTX 970M 93
+266%
RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) 25

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p136
+147%
55−60
−147%
Full HD55
+175%
20
−175%
1440p26
+18.2%
22
−18.2%
4K21
+16.7%
18
−16.7%

Cost per frame, $

1080p46.56no data
1440p98.50no data
4K121.95no data

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
+109%
11
−109%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 42
+163%
16
−163%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+200%
8−9
−200%
Battlefield 5 52
+206%
16−18
−206%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 30−33
+114%
14
−114%
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
+156%
9
−156%
Far Cry 5 50
+257%
14−16
−257%
Far Cry New Dawn 48
+167%
18−20
−167%
Forza Horizon 4 144
+251%
40−45
−251%
Hitman 3 27−30
+155%
11
−155%
Horizon Zero Dawn 75−80
−27.6%
97
+27.6%
Metro Exodus 53
+130%
23
−130%
Red Dead Redemption 2 40−45
+86.4%
22
−86.4%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 81
+268%
21−24
−268%
Watch Dogs: Legion 75−80
+25.8%
62
−25.8%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 53
+231%
16−18
−231%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+200%
8−9
−200%
Battlefield 5 44
+159%
16−18
−159%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 30−33
+150%
12
−150%
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
+283%
6
−283%
Far Cry 5 41
+193%
14−16
−193%
Far Cry New Dawn 37
+106%
18−20
−106%
Forza Horizon 4 131
+220%
40−45
−220%
Hitman 3 27−30
+115%
12−14
−115%
Horizon Zero Dawn 75−80
+4.1%
73
−4.1%
Metro Exodus 44
+159%
17
−159%
Red Dead Redemption 2 40−45
+193%
14
−193%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 45−50
+129%
21
−129%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 101
+405%
20−22
−405%
Watch Dogs: Legion 75−80
+56%
50
−56%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 21
+31.3%
16−18
−31.3%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+200%
8−9
−200%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 30−33
+131%
12−14
−131%
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
+130%
10−11
−130%
Far Cry 5 29
+107%
14−16
−107%
Forza Horizon 4 36
−13.9%
40−45
+13.9%
Hitman 3 27−30
+115%
12−14
−115%
Horizon Zero Dawn 75−80
+347%
17
−347%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 45−50
+167%
18
−167%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 26
+136%
11
−136%
Watch Dogs: Legion 75−80
+52.9%
50−55
−52.9%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 40−45
+193%
14
−193%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 26
+117%
12−14
−117%
Far Cry New Dawn 25
+150%
10−11
−150%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 17
+183%
6−7
−183%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 12−14
+1100%
1−2
−1100%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 16−18
+167%
6−7
−167%
Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
+167%
3−4
−167%
Far Cry 5 19
+171%
7−8
−171%
Forza Horizon 4 80
+321%
18−20
−321%
Hitman 3 18−20
+80%
10−11
−80%
Horizon Zero Dawn 30−33
+114%
14−16
−114%
Metro Exodus 25
+317%
6−7
−317%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 27−30
+1250%
2−3
−1250%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 16−18
+220%
5−6
−220%
Watch Dogs: Legion 90−95
+128%
40−45
−128%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 24−27
+118%
10−12
−118%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 12
+140%
5−6
−140%
Far Cry New Dawn 13
+225%
4−5
−225%
Hitman 3 10−12
+450%
2−3
−450%
Horizon Zero Dawn 70−75
+573%
11
−573%
Metro Exodus 14
+367%
3−4
−367%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 16
+433%
3−4
−433%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 9−10
+125%
4−5
−125%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 7−8
+133%
3−4
−133%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 7−8
+133%
3−4
−133%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3 0−1
Far Cry 5 8
+167%
3−4
−167%
Forza Horizon 4 6
+0%
6−7
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 14−16
+1300%
1−2
−1300%
Watch Dogs: Legion 6−7
+200%
2−3
−200%

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 12−14
+85.7%
7−8
−85.7%

This is how GTX 970M and RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) compete in popular games:

  • GTX 970M is 147% faster in 900p
  • GTX 970M is 175% faster in 1080p
  • GTX 970M is 18% faster in 1440p
  • GTX 970M is 17% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, with 4K resolution and the Ultra Preset, the GTX 970M is 1300% faster.
  • in Horizon Zero Dawn, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is 28% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • GTX 970M is ahead in 68 tests (96%)
  • RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is ahead in 2 tests (3%)
  • there's a draw in 1 test (1%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 14.83 6.04
Recency 7 October 2014 7 January 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm

GTX 970M has a 145.5% higher aggregate performance score.

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000), on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce GTX 970M is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) in performance tests.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
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