GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R5 330 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 330 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1178MHz vs 855MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
Radeon R5 330 OEM 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+616%
3920
Radeon R5 330 OEM
547
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 2015
GeForce 900
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
830 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
855 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
1664
Shading Units
320
104
TMUs
20
56
ROPs
8
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.840 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.10 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
547.2 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Hainan
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.69 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
56 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1