GeForce GTX 970M SLI and Radeon R9 M395 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
Radeon R9 M395
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
June 2015
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
-
Core clock speed
924 MHz
834 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
5000 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
162 Watt
-
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
1250 MHz
Shared memory
-
-
Eyefinity
-
1
DirectX
12_1
DirectX® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
-
Not Listed
OpenGL
-
4.4
Vulkan
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
+
Optimus
+
-
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
+
ZeroCore
-
+