NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon 530

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon 530 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
1008% significantly better overall score
204 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points
318% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6960 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points
324% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
8039 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
361% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6343 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
361% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
7006 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
15% slightly higher boost clock speed
1024 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
Identical
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s
367% significantly higher memory bandwidth
48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s
704% significantly higher pixel rate
8.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s
398% significantly higher texture rate
24.58 Gigatexels/s

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

56
599% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
427th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon 530 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970 beats the Radeon 530 in gaming performance.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the Radeon 530.

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