NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo, 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
4% slightly better overall score
2170 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
Identical
47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
30 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
47 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
16 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points
50232 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points
61450 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
55493 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
42706 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s
512 GB/s
128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W
141% significantly lower TDP
350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s
3% slightly higher pixel rate
64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s
256 Gigatexels/s
108% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS
11.5 TFLOPS
193% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664
4096
146% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104
256
146% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

56
64
14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
196th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon PRO

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
HBM

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon Pro Duo comparison

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

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Radeon Pro Duo at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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

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