NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 Clock1178MHz
Lower TDP (148W vs 290W)
AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290X
+43%
5.632 TFLOPS
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 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
2816
104
TMUs
176
56
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
290W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 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 + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Hawaii
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
438 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
