NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 480
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Jun 2016
Generation
GeForce 900
Arctic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1266 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
256.0GB/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
40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
182.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
5.834 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
364.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.834 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
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
150W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x 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
1.3
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
📊 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
-