AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 590 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1545MHz 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 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 590
+81%
7.119 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 590
+30%
4775
GeForce GTX 970
3646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 590
+27%
2147
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 590
+60%
24
GeForce GTX 970
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 590
+53%
46
GeForce GTX 970
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 590
+77%
71
GeForce GTX 970
40
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 590
42
GeForce GTX 970
42
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 590
+52%
67
GeForce GTX 970
44
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 590
+12%
110
GeForce GTX 970
98
Graphics Card
Nov 2018
Release Date
Sep 2014
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1469 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1545 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
49.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
7.119 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
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 30
GPU Name
GM204
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
12 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
