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Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released April, 2017
AMD Radeon RX 580
- 1.3 GHz
- 8 GB GDDR5
7.8 Out of 10
by www.tweaktown.com (May, 2017)This is one area I really don't like, is that SAPPHIRE requires a 6+8-pin PCIe power setup, and uses more power than NVIDIA's much faster GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition.
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Released September, 2014
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
- 1.1 GHz
- 4 GB GDDR5
8.1 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!MSI's GTX 970 Gaming is available online for $350, which is a $20 price premium for the overclock out of the box and the improved cooler.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of RX 580 vs 970 among all GPUs
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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 | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly more memory | 8,192 MB | vs | 4,096 MB | 2x more memory | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 1,257 MHz | vs | 1,050 MHz | Around 20% higher clock speed | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 6,175 GFLOPS | vs | 3,494 GFLOPS | More than 75% better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher texture rate | 193 GTexel/s | vs | 109.2 GTexel/s | More than 75% higher texture rate | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 8,000 MHz | vs | 7,012 MHz | Around 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 256 GB/s | vs | 224.4 GB/s | Around 15% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| More shading units | 2,304 | vs | 1,664 | 640 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 144 | vs | 104 | 40 more texture mapping units | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,340 MHz | vs | 1,178 MHz | Around 15% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 2,000 MHz | vs | 1,753 MHz | Around 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
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| Much better T-Rex score | 40,155.96 | vs | 3,361.76 | Around 12x better T-Rex score | |||
| More render output processors | 56 | vs | 32 | 24 more render output processors | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 58.8 GPixel/s | vs | 42.9 GPixel/s | More than 35% higher pixel rate | |||
| Better particle simulation score | 1,123.58 mInteraction/s | vs | 889.21 mInteraction/s | More than 25% better particle simulation score | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 970
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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