GeForce GTX 970M SLI and Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
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Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
October 2017
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
1200 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
512
Power consumption (TDP)
162 Watt
15 Watt
Memory type
GDDR5
-
Maximum RAM amount
2x 6 GB
-
Memory bus width
2x 192 Bit
-
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
-
Shared memory
-
-
DirectX
12_1
12_1
CUDA
+
-
Optimus
+
-