GeForce GTX 970M SLI and Radeon HD 4720 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
Radeon HD 4720
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
-
RV730
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
October 2014
December 2011
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
-
Core clock speed
924 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
514 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
320
Power consumption (TDP)
162 Watt
55 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
19.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2x 6 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
2x 192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
1334 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
21.34 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12_1
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
3.3
Shader Model
-
4.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
Optimus
+
-