AMD FireStream 9370 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9370
2.64 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
+48%
3.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2010
Release Date
Sep 2014
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1150 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
147.2GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
1664
80
TMUs
104
32
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
26.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
66.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.640 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
528.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
148W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GM204
Cypress XT GL
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
5.0
Shader Model
6.4
