NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8570 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1178MHz vs 780MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+554%
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 8570 OEM
0.599 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2013
GeForce 900
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
730 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
780 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
384
104
TMUs
24
56
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.240 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
18.72 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
599.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
37.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Oland
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
77 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
