GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Instinct MI100

CORE STATE Arcturus

VRAM 32 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1502 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 4096 bit

ARCHITECTURE CDNA 1.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

139,035

29,982

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

20,005

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

Instinct MI100

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

7,680

1,664 -78.3%

Shaders

7,680

1,664 -78.3%

TMUs

480

104 -78.3%

ROPs

64

56 -12.5%

Compute Units

120

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Clocks

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1502 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz 2.4 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

32 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

32,768

4,096 -87.5%

Memory Type

HBM2

GDDR5

Memory Bus

4096 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

1.23 TB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

8 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

96.13 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

721.0 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

23.07 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

11.54 TFLOPS (1:2)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

46.14 TFLOPS (2:1)

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Power

TDP

300 W

148 W

TDP (W)

300

148 -50.7%

Suggested PSU

700 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

CDNA 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Arcturus

GM204

Generation

Instinct (MIx)

GeForce 900

Process Size

7 nm

28 nm

Transistors

25,600 million

5,200 million

Die Size

750 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

34.1M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

—

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

—

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

—

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

No outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Radeon Instinct

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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