NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FireStream 9270

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD FireStream 9270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 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)

GeForce GTX 970 +226%

3.92 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

FireStream 9270

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

1664

Shading Units

800

104

TMUs

40

56

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

RV770

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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