Comparison of Radeon HD 7870 XT and GeForce GTX 970 [S]ave
| Attribute |  GeForce GTX 970 × |  Radeon HD 7870 XT × |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | ||
| Release year (year) | 2014 | 2012 |
| GPU brand | Nvidia | AMD |
| GPU name | GM204 | Tahiti LE |
| Market | Desktop | Desktop |
| Clock speed (MHz) | 1,050 | 925 |
| Turbo clock speed (MHz) | 1,178 | 975 |
| Is dual GPU | - | - |
| Model | GeForce GTX 970 | Radeon HD 7870 XT |
| Memory | ||
| Memory (MB) | 4,096 | 2,048 |
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 224.4 | 192 |
| Memory bus (bit) | 256 | 256 |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory clock speed (MHz) | 1,753 | 1,500 |
| Effective memory clock speed (MHz) | 7,012 | 6,000 |
| Noise and power | ||
| TDP (W) | 148 | 185 |
| Raw performance | ||
| Pixel rate (GPixel/s) | 58.8 | 31.2 |
| Render output processors | 56 | 32 |
| Texture mapping units | 104 | 96 |
| Shading units | 1,664 | 1,536 |
| Floating-point performance (GFLOPS) | 3,494 | 2,995 |
| Compute units | - | 24 |
| Texture rate (GTexel/s) | 109.2 | 93.6 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Metro: Last Light | - | 79.5 |
| Battlefield 3 | - | 72 |
| Unigine: Heaven 4.0 | 60 | - |
| Face detection (mPixels/s) | 105.04 | 65.4 |
| T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) | 3358.38 | 3350.68 |
| Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) | 3715.92 | 3705.76 |
| Bitcoin mining (mHash/s) | 212.39 | 345.79 |
| Sky Diver Factor | 428.4 | 314 |
| Thief | 75 | - |
| Fire Strike Factor | 72.7 | 47.56 |
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