GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

CORE STATE Navi 21

VRAM 32 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2171 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

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

205,557

15,163

geekbench_opencl

131,392

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

143,199

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 W6900X

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

5,120

2,048 -60.0%

Shaders

5,120

2,048 -60.0%

TMUs

320

128 -60.0%

ROPs

128

64 -50.0%

Compute Units

80

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Clocks

Base Clock

1825 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

2171 MHz

1216 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

277.9 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

694.7 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

22.23 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

1,389.4 GFLOPS (1:16)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

44.46 TFLOPS (2:1)

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AI/RT

RT Cores

80

—

Power

TDP

300 W

165 W

TDP (W)

300

165 -45.0%

Suggested PSU

700 W

450 W

Power Connectors

—

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Navi 21

GM204

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac (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

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

120 mm 4.7 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.14x Thunderbolt

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

5,999 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

—

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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