GeForce GTX 970M SLI and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
-
Polaris 30
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
October 2014
November 2018
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
1469 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
162 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 6 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
2x 192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12_1
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
2.0
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+
Optimus
+
-