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GeForce GTX 980 and Radeon RX 470 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 470

GeForce GTX 980
11457
Radeon RX 470
8339

GeForce GTX 980

Radeon RX 470


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name
GM204
Polaris 10 Pro

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
September 2014
August 2016

Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-

Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
1x 6-pin

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1216 MHz
1206 MHz

Core clock speed
1064 MHz
926 MHz

CUDA cores
2048
-

Floating-point performance
4,981 gflops
4,940 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm

Number of transistors
5,200 million
5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2048

Power consumption (TDP)
165 Watt
120 Watt

Texture fill rate
144 billion/sec
154.4

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
6600 MHz

Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
211.2 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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)
12 (12_0)

CUDA
+
-

OpenCL
1.2
2.0

OpenGL
4.5
4.6

Shader Model
6.4
6.4

Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131

BatteryBoost
+
-

FreeSync
-
+

GameStream
+
-

GameWorks
+
-

GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-

GPU Boost
2.0
-

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

Optimus
+
-