Product Compare
AMD Radeon R9 M390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |