GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 7870

  Nvidia

Developer

  AMD

  GeForce GTX 970

Model

  Radeon HD 7870

benchmarks
Total performance

  35.1

  Maxwell(GM204)

Architecture

  GCN(Pitcairn XT)

  28

Process, nm

  28

Release year

  2012

Shaders

  1280

  1050

Core frequency

  1000

  1178

Core frequency (turbo mode)

  -

  -

Shaders frequency

  1000

  GDDR5

Memory type

  GDDR5

  3500

Memory frequency

  4800

  224 + 32

Memory bus

  256

  12 (FL 12_1)

DirectX

  11.1

  4.5

OpenGL

  4.2

benchmarks
3DMark06

  23230.0

• 10DE 13C2

System device ids

• 1002 6818
• 1002 679E

• MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)
• Asus Z170 PRO GAMING
• Asus Z97-A
• Asus Z170-A
• Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO
• MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)
• MSI Z97 PC Mate(MS-7850)

Popular builds

• Asus M5A97 R2.0
• Asrock Z77 Extreme4
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• Asus P8Z77-V LX
• Dell XPS 8500