Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GTX 970M
Radeon RX 480
8883
GeForce GTX 970M
5911
Radeon RX 480
GeForce GTX 970M
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
GM204
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2016
October 2014
Bus support
n/a
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
1038 MHz
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
924 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1280
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
2,657 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
182.3
83.04
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
120 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
VGA аnalog display support
-
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+
HDMI
2.0
+
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
Ansel
-
+
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
BatteryBoost
-
+
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
-
FRTC
1
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-