GeForce GTX 970M SLI and Radeon R9 380X - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
Radeon R9 380X
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name
-
Antigua
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
October 2014
November 2015
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2 x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Bridgeless CrossFire
-
1
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
970 MHz
Compute units
-
32
Core clock speed
924 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
3,973 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
5,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
162 Watt
190 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
124.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
2x 192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
970 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
182.4 GB/s
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
-
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
-
6
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
12_1
DirectX® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
-
2.0
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
6.3
Vulkan
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
FRTC
-
1
HD3D
-
+
LiquidVR
-
1
Optimus
+
-
PowerTune
-
+
TrueAudio
-
+
VCE
-
+
ZeroCore
-
+