NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI Radeon HD 4570
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4570 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 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1584 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 4570 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+3669%
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 4570
0.104 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 2008
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon R700
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
500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
1
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
80
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
25W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
RV710
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
RV710
(215-0725016)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.242 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
73 mm²
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
