AMD Radeon RX 570X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon RX 570X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X 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 570X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1244MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570X +29%

5.095 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1664

128

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 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 Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GM204

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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

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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