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GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon 530 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon 530

GeForce GTX 970
9932
Radeon 530
1048

GeForce GTX 970

Radeon 530


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name
GM204
Meso

Market segment
Desktop
Laptop

Release date
September 2014
March 2017

Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8

Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-

Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
None

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1024 MHz

Core clock speed
1050 MHz
1024 MHz

CUDA cores
1664
-

Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
784.1 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
5,200 million
1,550 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
384

Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
50 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-

Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
24.50

Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3/GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit

Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
2250 MHz

Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
28.8 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Multi monitor support
4 displays
-

HDMI
+
+

HDCP
+
-

Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-

G-SYNC support
+
-

Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12.0

CUDA
+
-

OpenCL
1.2
2.0

OpenGL
4.4
4.5

Shader Model
6.4
5.0

Vulkan
1.1.126
+

GameStream
+
-

GameWorks
+
-

GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-

GPU Boost
2.0
-