Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GTX 970

  AMD

Developer

  Nvidia

  Radeon HD 7870

Model

  GeForce GTX 970

  35.1

benchmarks
Total performance

  GCN(Pitcairn XT)

Architecture

  Maxwell(GM204)

  28

Process, nm

  28

  2012

Release year

  1280

Shaders

  1000

Core frequency

  1050

  -

Core frequency (turbo mode)

  1178

  1000

Shaders frequency

  -

  GDDR5

Memory type

  GDDR5

  4800

Memory frequency

  3500

  256

Memory bus

  224 + 32

  11.1

DirectX

  12 (FL 12_1)

  4.2

OpenGL

  4.5

  23230.0

benchmarks
3DMark06

• 1002 6818
• 1002 679E

System device ids

• 10DE 13C2

• Asus M5A97 R2.0
• Asrock Z77 Extreme4
• Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
• Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0
• Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3
• Asus P8Z77-V LX
• Dell XPS 8500

Popular builds

• 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)