NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI Radeon HD 3570
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 7.920GB/s)
1624 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 3570 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+6025%
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 3570
0.064 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jul 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon R600
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
495 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
7.920GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
40
104
TMUs
4
56
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.184 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.184 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
63.68 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
30W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DisplayPort
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
RV620
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
RV620 PRO
(215-0670006)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.181 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
