GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R5 235X OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235X OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
Radeon R5 235X OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (18W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+1300%
3920
Radeon R5 235X OEM
280
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 900
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
1664
Shading Units
160
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.500 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.000 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
280.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
18W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Caicos
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0