GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

CORE STATE Vega 10

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1250 MHz

TDP 210 W

BUS WIDTH 2048 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 5.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

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

73,356

15,163

geekbench_opencl

61,930

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

66,004

38,172

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

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 56

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

3,584

2,048 -42.9%

Shaders

3,584

2,048 -42.9%

TMUs

224

128 -42.9%

ROPs

64

64 0.0%

Compute Units

56

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Clocks

Base Clock

1138 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz 1572 Mbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

HBM2

GDDR5

Memory Bus

2048 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

402.4 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

4 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

8.960 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

560.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

17.92 TFLOPS (2:1)

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Power

TDP

210 W

165 W

TDP (W)

210

165 -21.4%

Suggested PSU

—

450 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Vega 10

GM204

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac (Vega Series)

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

12,500 million

5,200 million

Die Size

495 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

25.3M / mm²

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

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

IGP

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

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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