AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Full Specs

Summary

2,048 Shaders 1.21GHz	1,664 Shaders 1.18GHz
4GB GDDR5211.2GB/s	4GB GDDR5224GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 4.94 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 3.92 TFLOPS
Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP 120W	TDP 145W
Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin	Power Connectors 2x 6-Pin

Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1206MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1178MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 4.94 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 3.92 TFLOPSFP32
FP32 4.94 TFLOPS	FP32 3.92 TFLOPS
FP64 308.7 GFLOPS	FP64 122.5 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate 38.6 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 66 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 154.4 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 122.5 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 2,048 Shaders	Shaders 1,664 Shaders
TMUs 128 TMUs	TMUs 104 TMUs
ROPs 32 ROPs	ROPs 56 ROPs
CUs 32 CUs	SMs 13 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock 926MHz	Base Clock 1.05GHz
Boost Clock 1.21GHz	Boost Clock 1.18GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 2MB shared

L2 Cache 1.75MB shared

Memory

4GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5
Memory Bus 256-bit	Memory Bus 256-bit
Memory Speed 6.6GT/s	Memory Speed 7GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 211.2GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 224GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP 120W

TDP 145W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 3	Multi-Monitor 3
HDCP HDCP 2.2	HDCP -

Ports

3x DisplayPort 1.4 1x HDMI 2.0 -

3x DisplayPort 1.2 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DVI-I Dual-Link

Encoder

Encoder Model VCE 3.0	Encoder Model 2x NVENC 3
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265)	Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265)

Decoder

Decoder Model UVD 6.3	Decoder Model NVDEC 1
Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 JPEG VC-1 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265)	Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 AVC (H.264) -

Card

Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe 2-Slots	PCIe 2-Slots
Height 95 mm (3.74") Width 240 mm (9.45") Depth 35 mm (1.38")	Height 111 mm (4.37") Width 267 mm (10.51") Depth 40 mm (1.57")
Cooling Blower 1x Fan	Cooling Blower 1x Fan
Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin	Power Connectors 2x 6-Pin

Chip

Manufacturer AMD	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer AMD	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture GCN 4	Architecture Maxwell 2
Family Radeon R 400	Family GeForce 900
Branding	Branding
Codename Ellesmere	Codename NV124
Chip Variant Polaris 10 XL	Chip Variant -
Market Segment Desktop	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Aug 4, 2016	Release Date Sep 18, 2014

Fabrication

Foundry GlobalFoundries	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 14LPP	Fabrication Node 28nm
Die Size 232mm²	Die Size 398mm²
Transistor Count 5.7 Billion	Transistor Count 5.2 Billion
Transistor Density 24.57 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 13.07 MTr/mm²

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