AMD Radeon R9 M390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2015
Sep 2014
Generation
Crystal System
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1753 MHz
Base Clock
-
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1178 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
1664
TMUs
128
104
ROPs
32
56
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.14 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
92.54 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
2.961 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
2.961 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
185.1 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Amethyst
GM204
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
366 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
75W
148W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
300 W
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