GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

CORE STATE Polaris 20

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1284 MHz

TDP 150 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2018

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

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

849

369

geekbench_opencl

34,488

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

40,523

31,001

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

RX 580 2048SP

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

1,664 -18.8%

Shaders

2,048

1,664 -18.8%

TMUs

128

104 -18.8%

ROPs

32

56 +75.0%

Compute Units

32

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Clocks

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

41.09 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.259 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

328.7 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

5.259 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

150 W

148 W

TDP (W)

150

148 -1.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GM204

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,700 million

5,200 million

Die Size

232 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.6M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

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

241 mm 9.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x 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

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

GeForce 700

Successor

Vega

GeForce 10

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