NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon RX 570 X2 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (268.8GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 X2 +26%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 570 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2100 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

268.8GB/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

38.59 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

180W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-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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