AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Sep 2014
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
900 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
1664
TMUs
80
104
ROPs
32
56
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Curacao
GM204
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
148W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,603
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,683
OctaneBench
-
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
40
Blender
-
305