GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 290X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
Lower TDP (148W vs 580W)
Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
Radeon R9 290X2
+43%
5632
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jun 2014
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
1350 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
1664
Shading Units
2816
104
TMUs
176
56
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
580W
300 W
Suggested PSU
950 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
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Hawaii
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
438 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
