GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 4700
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 4700 Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+920%
3920
Radeon HD 4700
384
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Feb 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
1664
Shading Units
320
104
TMUs
32
56
ROPs
8
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
RV730
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
RV730 CE
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.514 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
146 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.1