GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 260X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (115W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+98%
3920
Radeon R7 260X
1971
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+147%
3646
Radeon R7 260X
1476
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 900
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
1664
Shading Units
896
104
TMUs
56
56
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
115W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Bonaire
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
