NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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

Lower TDP (148W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 '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 295X2 +46%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 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

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

65.15 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Vesuvius

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

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

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