AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1474 points
1% slightly better overall score
1446 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

41 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

39 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

16 FPS
18 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4254 points
86% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2280 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz
13% slightly higher core clock speed
924 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz
1% slightly higher boost clock speed
1038 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
166% significantly more memory
3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit
166% significantly larger memory bus width
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s
219% significantly higher memory bandwidth
120.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W
75 W
266% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

67.2 Gigapixels/s
34% slightly higher pixel rate
49.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

184.8 Gigatexels/s
122% significantly higher texture rate
83.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.91 TFLOPS
122% significantly better floating point performance
2.66 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816
120% significantly more shading units
1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176
120% significantly more texture mapping units
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
33% slightly more render output processors
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 589
241st of 589

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June
2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

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