GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon PRO W6800

CORE STATE Navi 21

VRAM 32 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2322 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

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

171,137

13,595

geekbench_opencl

120,399

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

109,228

31,001

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

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 W6800

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

96

56 -41.7%

Compute Units

60

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Clocks

Base Clock

1575 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2322 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

32 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

32,768

4,096 -87.5%

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

512.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

4 MB

2 MB

L3 Cache

128 MB

—

L0 Cache

32 KB per WGP

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

222.9 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

557.3 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

17.83 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

1,114.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

35.67 TFLOPS (2:1)

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AI/RT

RT Cores

60

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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

RDNA 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Navi 21

GM204

Generation

Radeon Pro Navi (Navi II Series)

GeForce 900

Process Size

7 nm

28 nm

Transistors

26,800 million

5,200 million

Die Size

520 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

51.5M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

120 mm 4.7 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

2,249 USD

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Radeon Pro Vega

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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