NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon HD 5800

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 5800, 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
320% significantly better overall score
538 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
13 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points
433% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5466 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
344% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6589 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
319th of 586

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
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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 5800 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 5800 in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Radeon HD 5800.

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