GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon RX 580 Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon RX 580 Mobile
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
GM204
Polaris
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2014
April 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1077 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
1000 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
4,963 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
100 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
155.1
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
256.0 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
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-