GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon 9800 XT Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon 9800 XT Mac Edition
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
GM204
R360
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
March 2004
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP Pro 8x
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
412 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
117 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
-
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
60 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
3.296
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
730 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
23.36 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
9.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
2.0
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-