GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 89% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970
The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970 | | Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM204 (GM204-200-A1) | vs | Pitcairn (Pitcairn XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,200 million | vs | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 1664 | vs | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 13 | vs | 20 |
| Core clock | 1050 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 56 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 104 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970 | | Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective | vs | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 970 | | Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 148 watts | vs | 175 watts |
| Release Date | 19 Sep 2014 | vs | 5 Mar 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)