NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R5 340

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 340, 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

838% significantly better overall score

241 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

6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

32 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

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

430% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5498 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

438% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5434 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

606% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4578 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

730 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

51% significantly higher boost clock speed

780 MHz

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

509% significantly higher memory bandwidth

36.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

957% significantly higher pixel rate

6.24 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

554% significantly higher texture rate

18.72 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

333% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

333% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

599% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

403rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R5 340 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Radeon R5 340 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon R5 340 has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the Radeon R5 340.