NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 310 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Lower TDP (35W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+1300%
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 310 OEM
0.28 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 2015
GeForce 900
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
160
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.500 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
280.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
35W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Caicos
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
