GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 390 X2

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated215
Place by popularitynot in top-10057
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data13.79
Power efficiencyno data11.58
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGrenadaGM204
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date3 September 2015 (9 years ago)19 September 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,399 $329

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores25601664
Core clock speed1000 MHz1050 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1178 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)580 Watt148 Watt
Maximum GPU temperatureno data98 °C
Texture fill rate160.0122.5
Floating-point processing power5.12 TFLOPS3.92 TFLOPS
ROPs6456
TMUs160104

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportno dataPCI Express 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Heightno data4.376" (11.1 cm)
Width3-slot2-slot
Recommended system power (PSU)no data500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors4x 8-pin2x 6-pin
SLI options-+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth345.6 GB/s224 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortDual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor supportno data4 displays
HDMI++
HDCP-+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536
G-SYNC support-+
Audio input for HDMIno dataInternal

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream-+
GeForce ShadowPlay-+
GPU Boostno data2.0
GameWorks-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.4
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2015 19 September 2014
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 580 Watt 148 Watt

R9 390 X2 has an age advantage of 11 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 970, on the other hand, has 291.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 390 X2 and GeForce GTX 970. We've got no test results to judge.


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