NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R9 380

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon R9 380

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 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 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (148W vs 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 380 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +12%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380

3.476 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970 +29%

3622

Radeon R9 380

2791

GeForce GTX 970

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Radeon R9 380

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

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

1664

Shading Units

1792

104

TMUs

112

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.04 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.476 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.476 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

217.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Antigua

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Antigua PRO (215-0877000)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

190W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

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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