AMD Radeon RX 580G vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2018
Sep 2014
Generation
Polaris
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1257 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1330 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
-
Shading Units
2304
1664
TMUs
144
104
ROPs
32
56
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
42.56 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
191.5 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
6.129 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
6.129 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
383.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Polaris 20
GM204
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTX(215-0910038)
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
185W
148W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.4
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