NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 350

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 350, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 350

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 39.98

$ 329.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

661% significantly better overall score

297 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 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

166% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10951 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

253% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9660 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9524 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

305% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

7976 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

1050 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

211% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

55 W

163% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

415% significantly higher pixel rate

12.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

378% significantly higher texture rate

25.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

224% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

224% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

380th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2016 July

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 R7 350 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970 beats the Radeon R7 350 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon R7 350 has a significantly lower TDP at 55 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Radeon R7 350.