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Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower vs AMD Radeon RX 470

Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower
Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower 4 GB GDDR5 · 1.18 GHz · 145 W Speed index 3/100

The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower has 1664 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.18 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 3.92 TFLOPS.

AMD Radeon RX 470
AMD Radeon RX 470 4 GB GDDR5 · 1.21 GHz · 120 W Speed index 4/100

The AMD Radeon RX 470 has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.21 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.94 TFLOPS.

Quick comparison

In FP32 performance, the AMD Radeon RX 470 is 26 % faster than the Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower.

Zotac GeForce GTX 970 BlowerAMD Radeon RX 470
Speed index
3/100
4/100
FP32
3.92 TFLOPS
4.94 TFLOPS
Boost Clock
1.18 GHz
1.21 GHz
Memory Size
4 GB GDDR5
4 GB GDDR5
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
211 GB/s
TDP
145 W
120 W
Launch Price
299 $
179 $

GPU

GPUZotac GeForce GTX 970 BlowerAMD Radeon RX 470
Based onNVIDIA GeForce GTX 970AMD Radeon RX 470
GPU ChipGM204-200-A1Polaris 10 PRO
Streaming Multiprocessors1332
Shader16642048
Render Output Units5632
Texture Units104128
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The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 13 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card AMD Radeon RX 470 is based on the Ellesmere architecture and is equipped with 32 execution units.

Memory

MemoryZotac GeForce GTX 970 BlowerAMD Radeon RX 470
Memory Size4 GB4 GB
Memory TypeGDDR5GDDR5
Memory Clock1.753 GHz1.650 GHz
Memory Speed7.0 Gbps6.6 Gbps
Memory bandwidth224 GB/s211 GB/s
Memory Interface256 bit256 bit
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The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.650GHz.

Clock Speeds

Clock SpeedsZotac GeForce GTX 970 BlowerAMD Radeon RX 470
Base Clock1.050 GHz0.926 GHz
Boost Clock1.178 GHz1.206 GHz
OverclockingYesYes
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The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower has a turbo clock of 1.178 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon RX 470 is 1.206 GHz.

Thermal Design

Thermal DesignZotac GeForce GTX 970 BlowerAMD Radeon RX 470
TDP145 W120 W
Tjunction max98 °C93 °C
PCIe-Power2 x 6-Pin1 x 6-Pin
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The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower has 2 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

Cooler & Fans

Cooler & FansZotac GeForce GTX 970 BlowerAMD Radeon RX 470
Fan-TypeRadialRadial
Fan 11 x 65 mm1 x 65 mm
Cooler-TypeAir coolingAir cooling
Noise (Idle)0 dB--
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower are cooled with a Air cooling.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Connectivity

ConnectivityZotac GeForce GTX 970 BlowerAMD Radeon RX 470
Max. Displays44
HDCP2.22.2
HDMI1x HDMI 2.01x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort1x DP 1.23x DP 1.4a
DVI2--
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The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

Featureset

FeaturesetZotac GeForce GTX 970 BlowerAMD Radeon RX 470
Max. resolution4096x21607680x4320
DirectX12_112_0
RaytracingNoNo
DLSS / FSRNoYes
LEDNo LED lightingNo LED lighting
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The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_0.

Supported Video Codecs

Supported Video CodecsZotac GeForce GTX 970 BlowerAMD Radeon RX 470
h264Decode / EncodeDecode / Encode
h265 / HEVCNoDecode / Encode
VP8DecodeNo
VP9NoNo
AV1NoNo
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This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Dimensions

DimensionsZotac GeForce GTX 970 BlowerAMD Radeon RX 470
Length244 mm240 mm
Height111 mm95 mm
Width--35 mm
Width (Slots)2 Slots2 Slots
SFF-ReadyNoNo
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The Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the AMD Radeon RX 470 is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Additional data

Additional dataZotac GeForce GTX 970 BlowerAMD Radeon RX 470
GPU InterfacePCIe 3 x 16PCIe 3.0 x 16
Release dateQ4/2014Q3/2016
Launch Price299 $179 $
Structure size28 nm14 nm
Part-noZT-90105-10P--
Documentsdata sheetdata sheet
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Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Blower was released in Q4/2014.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

Benchmark results

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

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.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL AMD Radeon RX 470 +35.4 %

  1. 26,734
  2. 36,194

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan AMD Radeon RX 470 +23.1 %

  1. 31,845
  2. 39,194

Geekbench 6 - Metal

  1. no data
  2. 36,011

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