GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon Pro 580X

CORE STATE Ellesmere

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1200 MHz

TDP 185 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

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_metal

50,082

13,595

geekbench_opencl

36,199

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

39,693

31,001

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

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

Pro 580X

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

1,664 -27.8%

Shaders

2,304

1,664 -27.8%

TMUs

144

104 -27.8%

ROPs

32

56 +75.0%

Compute Units

36

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Clocks

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1710 MHz 6.8 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

218.9 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

38.40 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.530 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

345.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.530 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

185 W

148 W

TDP (W)

185

148 -20.0%

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

—

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM204

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac (500X Series)

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

5,200 million

Die Size

232 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

IGP

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x HDMI 2.0b

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

—

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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