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GeForce GTX 970M and Radeon HD 6870 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon HD 6870

GeForce GTX 970M
5911
Radeon HD 6870
2285

GeForce GTX 970M

Radeon HD 6870


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name
GM204
RV940 Barts

Market segment
Laptop
Desktop

Release date
October 2014
October 2010

Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.0 x16

Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pin

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
900 MHz

Core clock speed
924 MHz
-

CUDA cores
1280
-

Floating-point performance
2,657 gflops
2,016.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
5,200 million
1,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1120

Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
151 Watt

Texture fill rate
83.04
50.40

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
1 GB

Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
1050 MHz

Memory bandwidth
120 GB/s
134.4 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Eyefinity
-
1

VGA аnalog display support
+
-

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-

HDMI
+
+

DisplayPort support
-
-

G-SYNC support
+
-

DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11

CUDA
+
-

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.1
1.2

OpenGL
4.5
4.4

Shader Model
6.4
5.0

Vulkan
1.1.126
-

Ansel
+
-

AppAcceleration
-
-

BatteryBoost
+
-

CrossFire
-
1

Enduro
-
-

GameStream
+
-

GameWorks
+
-

GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-

GPU Boost
2.0
-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-

HD3D
-
-

Optimus
+
-

PowerTune
-
-

TrueAudio
-
-

ZeroCore
-
-