GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon Pro Duo

CORE STATE Capsaicin

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 350 W

BUS WIDTH 4096 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 3.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

35,860

33,457

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

38,172

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

Pro Duo

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

4,096

2,048 -50.0%

Shaders

4,096

2,048 -50.0%

TMUs

256

128 -50.0%

ROPs

64

64 0.0%

Compute Units

64

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Clocks

Base Clock

—

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1216 MHz

GPU Clock

1000 MHz

—

Memory Clock

500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

HBM

GDDR5

Memory Bus

4096 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

512.0 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

64.00 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

8.192 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

512.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

8.192 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

350 W

165 W

TDP (W)

350

165 -52.9%

Suggested PSU

750 W

450 W

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Capsaicin

GM204

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

8,900 million

5,200 million

Die Size

596 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

14.9M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

277 mm 10.9 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

1,499 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

FirePro GCN

GeForce 700

Successor

Radeon Pro Polaris

GeForce 10

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