GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon R9 285 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 285
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Radeon R9 285
6880
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon R9 285
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name
GM204
Tonga
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
September 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
918 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
3,290 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
5,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
190 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
102.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
176.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x 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)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.170
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-