NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
VS
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
VS
AMD Radeon R9 Fury

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and AMD Radeon R9 Fury. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

132
Place in performance rating
133
27.18
Value for money (0-100)
24.94
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 1.2
GM204
Code name
Fiji
Desktop
Type
Desktop
19 September 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
16 June 2015 (6 years ago)
$329
Launch price (MSRP)
$549
$290 (0.9x MSRP)
Price now
$545 (1x MSRP)
34.98
Value for money
21.07
GM204
GPU code name
Fiji
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and AMD Radeon R9 Fury based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1664
Pipelines
3584
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
no data
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
5,200 million
Transistor count
8,900 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
148 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
109 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
224.0
3,920 gflops
Floating-point performance
7,168 gflops
98 °C
Maximum GPU temperature
no data
1664
CUDA cores
no data
no data
Compute units
56
1664
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
1178 MHz
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
5,200 million
Number of transistors
8,900 million
148 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
275 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and AMD Radeon R9 Fury.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
10.5" (26.7 cm)
Length
no data
2x 6-pins
Supplementary power connectors
​2x 8-pin
+
SLI options
no data
500 Watt
Recommended system power (PSU)
no data
PCI Express 3.0
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
4.376" (11.1 cm)
Height
no data
no data
Bridgeless CrossFire
1

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and AMD Radeon R9 Fury can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
7.0 GB/s
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
224 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
512 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
no data
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
+

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and AMD Radeon R9 Fury, the size and number of monitors.

Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
+
G-SYNC support
no data
4 displays
Multi monitor support
no data
+
HDCP
no data
2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
no data
Internal
Audio input for HDMI
no data
no data
Eyefinity
+
no data
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
+
HDMI
+
no data
DisplayPort support
+

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and AMD Radeon R9 Fury is the additional functionality.

+
3D Vision
no data
2.0
GPU Boost
no data
+
CUDA
no data
+
GeForce Experience
no data
+
Surround
no data
+
Adaptive Vertical Sync
no data
+
GameStream
no data
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
no data
+
GameWorks
no data
no data
AppAcceleration
+
no data
CrossFire
1
no data
FRTC
1
no data
FreeSync
1
no data
HD3D
+
no data
LiquidVR
1
no data
PowerTune
+
no data
TressFX
1
no data
TrueAudio
+
no data
ZeroCore
-
no data
VCE
+
no data
DDMA audio
+
no data
Enduro
-
no data
UVD
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and AMD Radeon R9 Fury. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_1)
DirectX
DirectX® 12
4.4
OpenGL
4.5
1.1.126
Vulkan
+
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
1.2
OpenCL
2.0
no data
Mantle
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and AMD Radeon R9 Fury graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 Fury good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Cheaper ($290 (0.9x MSRP) vs $545 (1x MSRP))

Less power consumption (148 Watt vs 275 Watt)

G-SYNC support

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 Fury

0.040000000000006% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (3584 vs 1664)

More memory bandwidth (512 GB/s vs 224 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 Fury?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R9 Fury .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 versus AMD Radeon R9 Fury performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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