GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R5 220 OEM
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970 |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R5 220 OEM |
129 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 970 . |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970 | | Radeon R5 220 OEM | |
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GPU Name | GM204 (GM204-200-A1) | vs | Cedar (Cedar PRO) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
Die Size | 398 mm² | vs | 59 mm² |
Transistors | 5,200 million | vs | 292 million |
Shaders | 1664 | vs | 80 |
Compute Units | 13 | vs | 2 |
Core clock | 1050 MHz | vs | 650 MHz |
ROPs | 56 | vs | 4 |
TMUs | 104 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970 | | Radeon R5 220 OEM | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit |
Memory Speed | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective | vs | 533 MHz
1066 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 970 | | Radeon R5 220 OEM | |
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TDP | 148 watts | vs | 19 watts |
Release Date | 19 Sep 2014 | vs | 21 Dec 2013 |
GeForce GTX 970
58.80 GP/s
Radeon R5 220 OEM
2.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
109.20 GT/s
Radeon R5 220 OEM
5.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
224.40 GB/s
Radeon R5 220 OEM
8.53 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
3494.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R5 220 OEM
104.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better