AMD Radeon RX 560 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
amd
Brand4GB GDDR5
Memory1024
Cores112 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon RX 560
nvidia
Brand4GB GDDR5
Memory1664
Cores224.4 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon RX 560
Radeon RX 560
$99 • Apr 2017
GeForce GTX 970
$329 • Sep 2014
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 560 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 4 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 75 W | 148 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1275 MHz | 1178 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 112 GB/s | 224.4 GB/s |
| Process Size | 14nm | 28nm |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 1664 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 64 | 104 |
| ROPs | 16 | 56 |
| Memory Bus | 128-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1753 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 20.4 GPixel/s | 65.97 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 112 GTexel/s | 224.4 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 2.611 GFLOPS | 3.92 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 1.00 MB | 2.00 MB |
| Die Size | 123 mm² | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | 3000 Million | 5200 Million |
| Required PSU | 250 W | 300 W |
| Power Connectors | None | 2x 6-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12 | 12.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | GlobalFoundries | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon RX 560
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon RX 560
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon RX 560
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon RX 560
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
AMD Radeon RX 560
AMD • 4GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA • 4GB GDDR5
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