NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250XE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 250XE 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+256%
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 250XE
1.101 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Aug 2014
GeForce 900
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
640
104
TMUs
40
56
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.76 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1101 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
68.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
80W
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
Cape Verde
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Cape Verde XT
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
123 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
