AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1178MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +685%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Sep 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

780 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1664

20

TMUs

104

8

ROPs

56

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

31.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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