GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM204
Wimbledon XT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2014
May 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
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SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
200 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
-
Memory bus width
256 Bit
2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
-
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.4
-
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-