GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 370 1024SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1178MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)
Radeon R9 370 1024SP Advantages
Released 9 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+96%
3920
Radeon R9 370 1024SP
1997
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jun 2015
GeForce 900
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
925 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
1664
Shading Units
1024
104
TMUs
64
56
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Trinidad
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Trinidad PRO
(215-0870020)
(215-0870020)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
212 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