GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon X1700 SE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
1664
Shading Units
-
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
8
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
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
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
RV560
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
RV560 SE
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
3.0
