NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 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 18% (1178MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (148W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +4%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1664

Shading Units

2048

104

TMUs

128

56

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

352 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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