NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970 Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Sep 2014

Nov 2009

Generation

GeForce 900

Evergreen

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

-

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

4GB

1024MB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256bit

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

128.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units

1664

1600

TMUs

104

80

ROPs

56

32

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

8 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

2 MB

512 KB

Compute Units

-

20

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

23.20 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

GM204

Hemlock

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Hemlock XT(215-0735075)

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TeraScale 2

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

40 nm

Transistors

5.2 billion

2.154 billion

Die Size

398 mm²

334 mm²

Board Design

TDP

148W

294W

Suggested PSU

300 W

600 W

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 (12_1)

11.2 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.4

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

N/A

CUDA

5.2

-

Shader Model

6.4

5.0

📊 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

-