GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon R9 M290X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 M290X
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Radeon R9 M290X
3360
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon R9 M290X
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM204
Neptune
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2014
January 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
900 MHz
Compute units
-
20
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
100 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
72.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
Not Listed
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
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
-
+