NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1420MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +66%

6.543 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Radeon RX 590 GME +22%

4432

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

1664

Shading Units

2304

104

TMUs

144

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

45.44 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

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

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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