GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon HD 7850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 7850
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Radeon HD 7850
3976
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon HD 7850
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM204
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
March 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
1,761 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
130 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
55.04
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 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)
12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-