AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2014
Sep 2014
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
1753 MHz
Base Clock
-
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1178 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
-
Shading Units
2816
1664
TMUs
176
104
ROPs
64
56
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
GM204
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
580W
148W
Suggested PSU
950 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,683
OctaneBench
-
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
40
Blender
-
305