GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon R7 M460 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 M460

GeForce GTX 970

9932

Radeon R7 M460

1103

GeForce GTX 970

Radeon R7 M460

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

GM204

Meso

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

September 2014

February 2016

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Recommended system power (PSU)

500 Watt

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pins

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1178 MHz

1125 MHz

Core clock speed

1050 MHz

984 MHz

CUDA cores

1664

Floating-point performance

3,920 gflops

864.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

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

27.00

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

7.0 GB/s

2000 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)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.0

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2.131

GameStream

GameWorks

GeForce ShadowPlay

GPU Boost

2.0