GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon 9100 PCI - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 970

Radeon 9100 PCI

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GPU code name

GM204

R200

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2014

April 2003

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCI

Recommended system power (PSU)

500 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pins

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1178 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1050 MHz

250 MHz

CUDA cores

1664

-

Floating-point performance

3,920 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

60 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1664

-

Power consumption (TDP)

145 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

98 °C

-

Texture fill rate

109 billion/sec

2.000

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

7.0 GB/s

500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI, 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)

8.1

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

1.4

Shader Model

6.4

-

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A

GameStream

+

-

GameWorks

+

-

GeForce ShadowPlay

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-