GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon R9 370X
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R9 370X |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GeForce GTX 970M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970M | | Radeon R9 370X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM204 (N16E-GT-A2) | vs | Trinidad (Trinidad XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,200 million | vs | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 24 |
| Core clock | 1038 MHz | vs | 980 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970M | | Radeon R9 370X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 970M | | Radeon R9 370X | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 180 watts |
| Release Date | 7 Oct 2014 | vs | 27 Aug 2015 |
GeForce GTX 970M
49.80 GP/s
Radeon R9 370X
33.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
83.00 GT/s
Radeon R9 370X
82.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
120.30 GB/s
Radeon R9 370X
179.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
2657.30 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 370X
2636.80 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better