Comparison of GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon RX 470

Attribute	GeForce GTX 970 ×	Radeon RX 470 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2014	2016
GPU brand	Nvidia	AMD
GPU name	GM204	Ellesmere
Market	Desktop	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	1,050	926
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	1,178	1,206
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	GeForce GTX 970	Radeon RX 470
Memory
Memory (MB)	4,096	4,096
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	224.4	211.2
Memory bus (bit)	256	256
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,753	1,650
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	7,012	6,600
Noise and power
TDP (W)	148	120
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	58.8	38.6
Render output processors	56	32
Texture mapping units	104	128
Shading units	1,664	2,048
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	3,494	4,940
Compute units	-	32
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	109.2	154.4
Benchmarks
Crysis 3	-	48.9
Unigine: Heaven 4.0	60	-
Battlefield 4	-	77
Face detection (mPixels/s)	105.04	111.59
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3358.38	3356.82
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	3715.92	3707.56
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	212.39	511.36
Sky Diver Factor	428.4	383.43
Thief	75	-
Fire Strike Factor	72.7	67.3