AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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AMD Radeon RX 470 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

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

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +26%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470 +1%

3685

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470

12

GeForce GTX 970 +25%

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470

25

GeForce GTX 970 +20%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470

40

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 470

34

GeForce GTX 970 +29%

44

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 470

98

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Sep 2014

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1664

128

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM204

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

148W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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