GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R5 230
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM204
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
April 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
160
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
19 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
-
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-