AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +331%

3.92 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1664

24

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

56

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GM204

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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