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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5770 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)
864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970 +188%
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5770 X2
1.36 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Sep 2014
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
Evergreen
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
1200 MHz

Memory

4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
800
104
TMUs
40
56
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.60 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1360 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-

Board Design

148W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-

Graphics Processor

GM204
GPU Name
Juniper
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Juniper XT (215-0754013)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.04 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
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