GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon RX 480 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 480
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Radeon RX 480
8883
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon RX 480
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
GM204
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
June 2016
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
n/a
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Bridgeless CrossFire
-
1
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1266 MHz
Compute units
-
36
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
1120 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
5,834 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
150 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
182.3
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
2.0
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
1.4HDR
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
n/a
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
+
AppAcceleration
-
n/a
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
n/a
FreeSync
-
+
FRTC
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
n/a
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
-
+
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
n/a
UVD
-
+
VCE
-
+
ZeroCore
-
+