NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 560X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1275MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +50%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

1664

Shading Units

1024

104

TMUs

64

56

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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