AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
864 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9270
1.2 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
+226%
3.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
Sep 2014
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
1664
40
TMUs
104
16
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
148W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GM204
RV770 XT
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
4.1
Shader Model
6.4
