NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235X 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 9 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +1300%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 235X OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon R5 235X OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

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

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

1664

Shading Units

160

104

TMUs

8

56

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Caicos

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

18W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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