NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 370

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 370 4 GB, 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

204% significantly better overall score

742 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

17 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 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

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

142% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1505 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23431 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

24521 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

22055 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19292 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

925 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

975 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

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

11120% significantly higher memory bandwidth

2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

3% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

111% significantly higher pixel rate

31.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

96% significantly higher texture rate

62.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

96% significantly better floating point performance

2.00 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

62% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

62% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

287th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2015 June

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

4.4

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 370 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970 beats the Radeon R7 370 in gaming performance.

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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Radeon R7 370 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the Radeon R7 370.