
GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon HD 6770 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 6770
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Radeon HD 6770
1286
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon HD 6770
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM204
Juniper
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
January 2011
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
1,360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
800
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
108 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
34.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1050 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
76.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-