NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon RX 570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 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 224.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 570 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1244MHz vs 1178MHz)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 +29%

5.095 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Radeon RX 570 +6%

3859

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

Radeon RX 570 +20%

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

Radeon RX 570 +13%

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

Radeon RX 570 +30%

52

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970 +40%

42

Radeon RX 570

30

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

Radeon RX 570 +29%

57

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon RX 570 +2%

100

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 570

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1664

Shading Units

2048

104

TMUs

128

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

39.81 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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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