AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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AMD Radeon RX 590 GME NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1420MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 GME +66%

6.543 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590 GME +22%

4431

GeForce GTX 970

3622

Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1420 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1664

144

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

45.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

204.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

6.543 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.543 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

409.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GM204

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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