NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Oct 2013
Generation
GeForce 900
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
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Boost Clock
1178 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1625 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
104.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
896
TMUs
104
56
ROPs
56
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
256 KB
Compute Units
-
14
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
17.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
1.971 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Bonaire
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Bonaire XTX(215-0839097)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
115W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
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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
-