NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 430 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

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 R7 430 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +554%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 430 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon R7 430 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

Arctic 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

DDR3

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

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