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 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

50,082

N/A

geekbench_opencl

36,199

18,991

geekbench_vulkan

39,693

18,516

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

472

passmark_directx_10

N/A

28

passmark_directx_11

N/A

42

passmark_directx_12

N/A

24

passmark_directx_9

N/A

99

passmark_g2d

N/A

381

passmark_g3d

N/A

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,289

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

Pro 580X

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

1,280 -44.4%

Shaders

2,304

1,280 -44.4%

TMUs

144

80 -44.4%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

36

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Clocks

Base Clock

1100 MHz

924 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1038 MHz

Memory Clock

1710 MHz 6.8 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

6,144 -25.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

218.9 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

38.40 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.530 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

345.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.530 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

185 W

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TDP (W)

185

—

Power Connectors

—

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM204

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac (500X Series)

GeForce 900M

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

MXM Module

Outputs

2x HDMI 2.0b

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

—

GeForce 800M

Successor

—

GeForce 10 Mobile

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