NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1206MHz vs 1178MHz)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +10%

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

1664

Shading Units

1792

104

TMUs

112

56

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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