NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

On the Atlas performance index the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is about 17% faster. They launched 1 year apart.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970105
AMD Radeon R9 280X90
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970AMD Radeon R9 280X
Released 2014 2013
Family Maxwell Radeon R9 280X
Video memory 4 GB 3 GB
Clock 1050 MHz 850 MHz
Process 28 nm –
Power (TDP) 145 W 250 W
Launch price $329 $299
Performance index 105 90

Green marks the better value in each row. Less power, a smaller process and a lower price count as better.

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