GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon R7 250 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 250
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Radeon R7 250
1100
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon R7 250
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM204
Oland XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
October 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
716.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
384
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
25.20
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
72 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
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 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
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-