Radeon RX 570 and GeForce GTX 970M SLI - video card comparison
Radeon RX 570
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Polaris 20 Ellesmere
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Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2017
October 2014
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1244 MHz
1038 MHz
Core clock speed
1168 MHz
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,095 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
2x 5200 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
162 Watt
Texture fill rate
159.2
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2x 6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
2x 192 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x 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
6.4
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Vulkan
+
-
FreeSync
+
-
Optimus
-
+