Radeon R9 295X2 and GeForce GTX 970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 970
Radeon R9 295X2
8876
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Radeon R9 295X2
GeForce GTX 970
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Vesuvius
GM204
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
September 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
2 x 8-pin
2x 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1018 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1050 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1664
Floating-point performance
2x 5,733 gflops
3,920 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
1664
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
145 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
179.2
109 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-