GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

CORE STATE Vega 12

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1190 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 1024 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 5.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2018

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

29,726

13,595

geekbench_vulkan

21,832

31,001

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_opencl

N/A

28,528

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 Vega 16

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

1,664 +62.5%

Shaders

1,024

1,664 +62.5%

TMUs

64

104 +62.5%

ROPs

32

56 +75.0%

Compute Units

16

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Clocks

Base Clock

815 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz 2.4 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

HBM2

GDDR5

Memory Bus

1024 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

307.2 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

76.16 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.437 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

152.3 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

4.874 TFLOPS (2:1)

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Power

TDP

75 W

148 W

TDP (W)

75

148 +97.3%

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

—

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Vega 12

GM204

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac (Vega Series)

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

—

5,200 million

Die Size

—

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

—

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.0

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

IGP

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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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