GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon R7 M260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 M260
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Radeon R7 M260
511
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon R7 M260
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM204
Opal Pro / Mars
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2014
January 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
980 MHz
Compute units
-
6
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
715 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
721.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
1,550 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
384
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
23.52
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.3
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
+
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+