GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+46%
5728
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
1664
Shading Units
2304
104
TMUs
144
56
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
