AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1340MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 185W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 580
+57%
6.175 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 580
+19%
4347
GeForce GTX 970
3646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 580
+16%
1968
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 580
+13%
17
GeForce GTX 970
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 580
+16%
35
GeForce GTX 970
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 580
+25%
50
GeForce GTX 970
40
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 580
+36%
60
GeForce GTX 970
44
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Sep 2014
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1257 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1340 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2304
Shading Units
1664
144
TMUs
104
32
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
42.88 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
193.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
6.175 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.175 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
385.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
185W
TDP
148W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Polaris 20
GPU Name
GM204
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
