GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon Pro VII

CORE STATE Vega 20

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1700 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 4096 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 5.1

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

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_opencl

90,148

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

87,774

31,001

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

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 VII

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

3,840

1,664 -56.7%

Shaders

3,840

1,664 -56.7%

TMUs

240

104 -56.7%

ROPs

64

56 -12.5%

Compute Units

60

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Clocks

Base Clock

1400 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

16 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

16,384

4,096 -75.0%

Memory Type

HBM2

GDDR5

Memory Bus

4096 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

1.02 TB/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

108.8 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

408.0 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

13.06 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)

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Power

TDP

250 W

148 W

TDP (W)

250

148 -40.8%

Suggested PSU

600 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 5.1

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Vega 20

GM204

Generation

Radeon Pro Vega (Vega II Series)

GeForce 900

Process Size

7 nm

28 nm

Transistors

13,230 million

5,200 million

Die Size

331 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

40.0M / 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

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

305 mm 12 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

1,899 USD

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Radeon Pro Polaris

GeForce 700

Successor

Radeon Pro Navi

GeForce 10

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