Radeon RX 570 and GeForce GTX 970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 570 vs GeForce GTX 970
Radeon RX 570
7176
GeForce GTX 970
9932
Radeon RX 570
GeForce GTX 970
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Polaris 20 Ellesmere
GM204
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
September 2014
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1244 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
1168 MHz
1050 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1664
Floating-point performance
5,095 gflops
3,920 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1664
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
145 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
159.2
109 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
-
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
FreeSync
+
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0