Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX 970M

Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470
GeForce GTX 970M
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 970M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 470
    169%
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 69% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

The Radeon RX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470GeForce GTX 970M
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders2048vs1280
Compute Units32vs10
Core clock926 MHzvs1038 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs128vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470GeForce GTX 970M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470GeForce GTX 970M
TDP120 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs7 Oct 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    49.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    83.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    120.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    2657.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 470
    16690
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    9860

Points (higher is better)