AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +61%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Sep 2014

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1664

80

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GM204

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

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

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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