GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 580

CORE STATE Polaris 20

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1340 MHz

TDP 185 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,005

472

geekbench_metal

52,176

N/A

geekbench_opencl

37,453

18,991

geekbench_vulkan

45,173

18,516

passmark_directx_10

46

28

passmark_directx_11

60

42

passmark_directx_12

43

24

passmark_directx_9

124

99

passmark_g2d

769

381

passmark_g3d

8,813

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

3,488

2,289

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 580

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,304

1,280 -44.4%

Shaders

2,304

1,280 -44.4%

TMUs

144

80 -44.4%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

36

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Clocks

Base Clock

1257 MHz

924 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1038 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

6,144 -25.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

6.175 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

385.9 GFLOPS (1:16)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

6.175 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

185 W

—

TDP (W)

185

—

Suggested PSU

450 W

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Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GM204

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

GeForce 900M

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

MXM Module

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

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Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

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Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

GeForce 800M

Successor

Vega

GeForce 10 Mobile

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