NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Feb 2015
Generation
GeForce 900
Gem System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
768
TMUs
104
48
ROPs
56
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
256 KB
Compute Units
-
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
16.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
48.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
96.00 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Saturn
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Saturn PRO(216-0843044)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
6.5
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
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OctaneBench
77
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
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Blender
305
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