GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon HD 7970M X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon HD 7970M X2
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Wimbledon
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
April 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
4.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
+
1.2.170
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-