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 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_metal

29,726

15,163

geekbench_vulkan

21,832

38,172

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_opencl

N/A

33,457

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 Vega 16

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

2,048 +100.0%

Shaders

1,024

2,048 +100.0%

TMUs

64

128 +100.0%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

16

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Clocks

Base Clock

815 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1216 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

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

76.16 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.437 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

152.3 GFLOPS (1:16)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

4.874 TFLOPS (2:1)

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Power

TDP

75 W

165 W

TDP (W)

75

165 +120.0%

Suggested PSU

—

450 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

—

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

—

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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