Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon E9560 PCIe

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Sep 2014 Oct 2019
Generation GeForce 900 Embedded
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1050 MHz 1120 MHz
Boost Clock 1178 MHz 1237 MHz
Memory Clock 1753 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 224.4GB/s 224.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 1664 2304
TMUs 104 144
ROPs 56 32
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 2 MB
Compute Units 36
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 65.97 GPixel/s 39.58 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 122.5 GTexel/s 178.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.920 TFLOPS 5.700 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 122.5 GFLOPS 356.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 5.700 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM204 Ellesmere
GPU Variant GM204-200-A1
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 5.2 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 398 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 148W 130W
Suggested PSU 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a 4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
CUDA 5.2
Shader Model 6.4 6.4