GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon R7 Graphics

CORE STATE Spectre Lite

VRAM System Shared

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 25 W

BUS WIDTH System Shared

ARCHITECTURE GCN 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

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

4,575

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

4,330

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

R7 Graphics

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

384

1,664 +333.3%

Shaders

384

1,664 +333.3%

TMUs

24

104 +333.3%

ROPs

8

56 +600.0%

Compute Units

6

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1178 MHz

GPU Clock

720 MHz

—

Memory Clock

System Shared

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

System Shared

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

—

4,096

Memory Type

System Shared

GDDR5

Memory Bus

System Shared

256 bit

Bandwidth

System Dependent

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

—

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

—

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

5.760 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

17.28 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

553.0 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

34.56 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

25 W

148 W

TDP (W)

25

148 +492.0%

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

—

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Spectre Lite

GM204

Generation

GCN 2.0 IGP (Kaveri)

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

2,410 million

5,200 million

Die Size

245 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

9.8M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

IGP

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Motherboard Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

IGP

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

TeraScale 3 IGP

GeForce 700

Successor

GCN 3.0 IGP

GeForce 10

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