NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 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 Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (55W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+446%
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 250
0.717 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+549%
3646
Radeon R7 250
561
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 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
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
512
104
TMUs
32
56
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.20 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
716.8 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
44.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
55W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Cape Verde
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRO
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
123 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
