Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GTX 970M SLI - video card comparison
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Hawaii
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Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2013
October 2014
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
-
1038 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
2x 5200 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
162 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2x 6 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
2x 192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12_1
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
6.3
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Vulkan
1.2.131
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Optimus
-
+