GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 580G
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 185W)
Radeon RX 580G Advantages
Released 4 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1330MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
Radeon RX 580G
+56%
6129
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Oct 2018
GeForce 900
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1257 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1330 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
1664
Shading Units
2304
104
TMUs
144
56
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.56 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
191.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.129 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.129 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
383.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
185W
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
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Polaris 20
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
(215-0910038)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
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