GeForce GTX 970M and Radeon R4 Graphics - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M
Radeon R4 Graphics
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
GM204
Beema
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
October 2014
June 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
-
Core clock speed
924 MHz
800 MHz
CUDA cores
1280
-
Floating-point performance
2,657 gflops
204.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
930 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
128
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
83.04
6.400
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
192 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
120 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-