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GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

The GeForce GTX 970M makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 924 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 560, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970M 75 Watts
Radeon RX 560 80 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 560 should in theory be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be a bit (approximately 2%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970M. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970M 73920 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 1280 (2%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is quite a bit (more or less 136%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 560, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M 44352 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560 18800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 25552 (136%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 970M Radeon RX 560
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 7 2014 May 2017
Code Name GM204 Baffin
Memory 3072 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 924 MHz 1175 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 96000 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 73920 Mtexels/sec 75200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 44352 Mpixels/sec 18800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 1024
Texture Mapping Units 80 64
Render Output Units 48 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 970M

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