GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R5 230 OEM

GeForce GTX 970
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon R5 230 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Dec 2013
Radeon R5 230 OEM
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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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 230 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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 970Radeon R5 230 OEM
GPU NameGM204 (GM204-200-A1)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs370 million
Shaders1664vs160
Compute Units13vs2
Core clock1050 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs56vs4
TMUs104vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 970Radeon R5 230 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 970Radeon R5 230 OEM
TDP148 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date19 Sep 2014vs21 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970
    58.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 230 OEM
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970
    109.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 230 OEM
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 970
    224.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 230 OEM
    10.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 970
    3494.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 230 OEM
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better