NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 250 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 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1178MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +386%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250 OEM

0.806 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon R7 250 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/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

8.400 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.20 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

806.4 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

65W

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

Oland XT (215-0837000)

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

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