NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1178MHz vs 780MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+685%
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 240
0.499 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 900
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
730 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
780 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
320
104
TMUs
20
56
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.240 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
499.2 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
30W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Oland
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Oland PRO
(215-0837015)
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
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
