GeForce GTX 970 and GeForce GTX 780 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti
GeForce GTX 970
9932
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
9801
GeForce GTX 970
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
GM204
GK110
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
November 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
One 8-pin and one 6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
928 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
875 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
2880
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
5,345 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
7,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
2880
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
250 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
210 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
336 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
4 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.1.126
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision
-
+
3D Vision Live
-
+
Blu Ray 3D
-
+
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-