NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon HD 5670

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 5670 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 369.00
$ 129.04
$ 239.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
1527% significantly better overall score
139 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 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
1833% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1508 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
1683% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1642 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
52% significantly higher boost clock speed
775 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
300% significantly more memory
1 GiB

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s
250% significantly higher memory bandwidth
64 GB/s

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
477th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon HD 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

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 HD 5670 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 5670 in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the Radeon HD 5670.

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