The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (Maxwell 2.0) and has 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 224 GB/s.
Quick comparison
In FP32 performance, the AMD Radeon RX 480 is 40 % faster than the ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC.
AMD Radeon RX 480ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC
The AMD Radeon RX 480 has the Polaris 10 XT graphics chip installed, which is based on the Ellesmere architecture.
The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC is based on the graphics chip GM204-200-A1, which comes from the Maxwell 2.0 architecture.
Memory
Memory
AMD Radeon RX 480
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC
Memory Size
8 GB
4 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Clock
2.000 GHz
1.753 GHz
Memory Speed
8.0 Gbps
7.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
224 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
256 bit
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The graphics memory of the AMD Radeon RX 480 clocks at 2.000 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 8.0 Gbps.
The graphics memory speed of the ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC is 7.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.753 GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
AMD Radeon RX 480
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC
Base Clock
1.120 GHz
1.114 GHz
Boost Clock
1.266 GHz
1.253 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
AMD Radeon RX 480
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC
TDP
150 W
145 W
Tjunction max
100 °C
98 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 6-Pin
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
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The AMD Radeon RX 480 is powered by 1 x 6-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 150 W.
The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 145 W.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
AMD Radeon RX 480
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC
Fan-Type
Radial
Axial
Fan 1
1 x 65 mm
2 x 95 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
--
0 dB
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The AMD Radeon RX 480 is equipped with a total of 1 Radial main fans.
The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.
Connectivity
Connectivity
AMD Radeon RX 480
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x HDMI 2.0
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.4a
3x DP 1.2
DVI
--
1
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Up to 4 screens can be operated with the AMD Radeon RX 480.
The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.
Featureset
Featureset
AMD Radeon RX 480
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC
Max. resolution
7680x4320
4096x2160
DirectX
12_0
12_1
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
No
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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With the AMD Radeon RX 480 it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.
The maximum supported resolution of the ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC is 4096x2160 pixels.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
AMD Radeon RX 480
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
No
VP8
No
Decode
VP9
No
No
AV1
No
No
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The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.
Dimensions
Dimensions
AMD Radeon RX 480
ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC
Length
240 mm
290 mm
Height
95 mm
147 mm
Width
35 mm
40 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The AMD Radeon RX 480 is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.
The ASUS GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II Black OC needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3 x 16 Lanes interface.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.
The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.
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