NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 340X 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 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +467%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 340X OEM

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon R5 340X OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 900

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1664

Shading Units

384

104

TMUs

24

56

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Oland

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Oland XT (215-0837000)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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