GeForce GTX 980 and Radeon HD 4870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon HD 4870
GeForce GTX 980
11458
Radeon HD 4870
1411
GeForce GTX 980
Radeon HD 4870
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GM204
RV770
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
June 2008
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1216 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1064 MHz
750 MHz
CUDA cores
2048
-
Floating-point performance
4,981 gflops
1,200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
800
Power consumption (TDP)
165 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
144 billion/sec
30.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-