GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

GeForce GTX 970
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 970
    145%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 970
    143%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970

43% higher gaming performance.
152 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7970 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970

The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (8 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 970Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU NameGM204 (GM204-200-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti XT2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1664vs2048
Compute Units13vs32
Core clock1050 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs56vs32
TMUs104vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 970Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 970Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
TDP148 wattsvs300 watts
Release Date19 Sep 2014vs22 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970
    58.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970
    109.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    128.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 970
    224.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 970
    3494.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    4096.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 970
    15750
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    10830

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

  • GeForce GTX 970
    55
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    40

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 970
    79
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    64

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • GeForce GTX 970
    53
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    32

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

  • GeForce GTX 970
    40
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 970
    73
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    45

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 970
    55
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    46

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • GeForce GTX 970
    42
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    26

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • GeForce GTX 970
    25
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    16

FPS (higher is better)