GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+331%
3920
AMD Radeon 540
908
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 900
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
32bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
1664
Shading Units
384
104
TMUs
24
56
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.39 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
908.5 GFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
908.5 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
56.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Lexa
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.7