NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R5 435 OEM 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)