GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R5 230
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 230 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 230 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM204 (GM204-200-A1) | vs | Caicos (Caicos PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | vs | 67 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,200 million | vs | 370 million |
| Shaders | 1664 | vs | 160 |
| Compute Units | 13 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 1050 MHz | vs | 625 MHz |
| ROPs | 56 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 104 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970 | | Radeon R5 230 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective | vs | 667 MHz
1334 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 970 | | Radeon R5 230 | |
|---|
| TDP | 148 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 19 Sep 2014 | vs | 3 Apr 2014 |
GeForce GTX 970
58.80 GP/s
Radeon R5 230
2.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
109.20 GT/s
Radeon R5 230
5.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
224.40 GB/s
Radeon R5 230
10.67 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970
3494.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R5 230
200.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better