NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY 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 275W)
AMD Radeon R9 FURY 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 FURY
+82%
7.168 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Radeon R9 FURY
+33%
4858
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Radeon R9 FURY
+35%
2277
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
Radeon R9 FURY
+66%
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
Radeon R9 FURY
+83%
55
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
Radeon R9 FURY
+75%
70
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
Radeon R9 FURY
+4%
44
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
Radeon R9 FURY
+18%
52
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
Radeon R9 FURY
+46%
144
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jul 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
500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
56
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
3584
104
TMUs
224
56
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
224.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.168 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.168 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
448.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
275W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Fiji
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Fiji PRO CB
(215-0862046)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
596 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
