NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 560D

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 560D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1178MHz vs 1175MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560D 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +86%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560D

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 560D

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

1664

Shading Units

896

104

TMUs

56

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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