Winner
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 based on its compute performance and noise and power.
See full details | Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GTX 970 |
by techPowerUp!NVIDIA's GTX 780, which has seen a price drop down to $500 last week suddenly looks really expensive, but it does run cooler and quieter; not sure if that's worth the extra $100.
by techPowerUp!The card is also overclocked to a base clock of 1114 MHz out of the box.
Gaming | |
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more |
Graphics | |
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T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more |
Computing | |
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Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more |
Performance per Watt | |
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more |
Value | |
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more |
Noise and Power | |
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TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more |
7.4 | Overall Score |
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Winner |
| ![]() | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970GPUBoss Winner |
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Much better 3DMark06 score | 32,300 | vs | 15,071 | Around 2.2x better 3DMark06 score | |||
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Significantly higher memory bandwidth | 320 GB/s | vs | 224.4 GB/s | Around 45% higher memory bandwidth | |||
Better floating-point performance | 4,800 GFLOPS | vs | 3,494 GFLOPS | More than 35% better floating-point performance | |||
Higher texture rate | 152 GTexel/s | vs | 109.2 GTexel/s | Around 40% higher texture rate | |||
Significantly more shading units | 2,560 | vs | 1,664 | 896 more shading units | |||
Significantly more texture mapping units | 160 | vs | 104 | 56 more texture mapping units | |||
Much wider memory bus | 512 bit | vs | 256 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
More render output processors | 64 | vs | 56 | 8 more render output processors | |||
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Significantly higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 5,000 MHz | More than 40% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
Better PassMark score | 8,563 | vs | 7,049 | More than 20% better PassMark score | |||
Higher clock speed | 1,050 MHz | vs | 947 MHz | More than 10% higher clock speed | |||
Significantly better particle simulation score | 1,017.16 mInteraction/s | vs | 483.87 mInteraction/s | More than 2x better particle simulation score | |||
Much higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 1,125 MHz | More than 55% higher memory clock speed | |||
Higher turbo clock speed | 1,178 MHz | vs | 947 MHz | Around 25% higher turbo clock speed | |||
Better PassMark direct compute score | 4,375 | vs | 3,242 | Around 35% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
Higher BioShock infinite framerate | 107.6 fps | vs | 91.5 fps | Around 20% higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
Much lower TDP | 148W | vs | 300W | 2x lower TDP |
Radeon R9 290 | vs | GeForce GTX 970 | ||
![]() | 9.4 | 9.7 | GeForce GTX 970 |
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