GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 4730 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4730 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 4730 OEM Advantages
Lower TDP (110W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+815%
3920
Radeon HD 4730 OEM
428
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Dec 2008
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
396 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
1664
Shading Units
320
104
TMUs
16
56
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.70 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.70 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
428.2 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.63 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
110W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
RV670
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
4.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
