AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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AMD Radeon R9 370X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1178MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +48%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Sep 2014

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1664

80

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

GM204

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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