Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and GeForce GTX 970M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
GeForce GTX 970M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
GM204
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2012
October 2014
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
-
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1038 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
924 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1280
Floating-point performance
-
2,657 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
-
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
-
83.04
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
6 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
120 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
-
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
11.1
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
Ansel
-
+
BatteryBoost
-
+
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+