Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GTX 745 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6970

GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

Cayman

GM107

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

February 2014

Bus support

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

880 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

1033 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,703.4 gflops

793.3 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

384

Power consumption (TDP)

550 Watt

55 Watt

Texture fill rate

84.48

24.79

Memory type

DDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1375 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

28.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

+

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

5.0

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

-

1.1.126

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-