NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 360 896SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 360 896SP 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 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 360 896SP 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Lower TDP (85W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+98%
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 360 896SP
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jun 2015
GeForce 900
Generation
Pirate 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
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
896
104
TMUs
56
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
17.60 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
85W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Tobago
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Tobago XT
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
