GeForce GTX 880M SLI and Radeon HD 6970 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 880M SLI
Radeon HD 6970
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N15E-GX-A2
Cayman
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
December 2010
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
880 MHz
Core clock speed
954 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
2,703.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2x 3540 Million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3072
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
206 Watt
550 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
84.48
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
1375 MHz
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (FL 11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
+
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-