GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon R9 280X
Summary
GeForce GTX 970M
100%
Radeon R9 280X
111%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R9 280X |
| Around 11% higher average synthetic performance. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 Radeon R9 280X
The Radeon R9 280X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970M | | Radeon R9 280X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM204 (N16E-GT-A2) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XTL) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,200 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 32 |
| Core clock | 1038 MHz | vs | 850 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970M | | Radeon R9 280X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 970M | | Radeon R9 280X | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 7 Oct 2014 | vs | 8 Oct 2013 |
GeForce GTX 970M
49.80 GP/s
Radeon R9 280X
27.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
83.00 GT/s
Radeon R9 280X
109.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
120.30 GB/s
Radeon R9 280X
288.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
2657.30 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 280X
3482.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
9860
Radeon R9 280X
10960
Points (higher is better)