NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 450 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 450

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 149.99

$ 219.01 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

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 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

26 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

172% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10702 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9779 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

191% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10058 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

281% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8478 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

Identical

1050 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

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

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

345% significantly higher pixel rate

14.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

313% significantly higher texture rate

29.6 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

377th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2016 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

4.3

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 450 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 450 in gaming.

Our database shows that both the GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon R7 450 both have the same core clock speed.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R7 450 has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Radeon R7 450.