GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

CORE STATE Navi 21

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2310 MHz

TDP 335 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

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

4,235

472

geekbench_metal

222,653

N/A

geekbench_opencl

175,410

18,991

geekbench_vulkan

164,748

18,516

passmark_directx_10

164

28

passmark_directx_11

300

42

passmark_directx_12

114

24

passmark_directx_9

303

99

passmark_g2d

1,063

381

passmark_g3d

28,070

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

14,199

2,289

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 6950 XT

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

5,120

1,280 -75.0%

Shaders

5,120

1,280 -75.0%

TMUs

320

80 -75.0%

ROPs

128

48 -62.5%

Compute Units

80

—

Clocks

Base Clock

1860 MHz

924 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1038 MHz

Game Clock

2100 MHz

—

Memory Clock

2250 MHz 18 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

16 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

16,384

6,144 -62.5%

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

576.0 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

4 MB

1536 KB

L3 Cache

128 MB

—

L0 Cache

32 KB per WGP

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

23.65 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

1,478.4 GFLOPS (1:16)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

47.31 TFLOPS (2:1)

—

AI/RT

RT Cores

80

—

Power

TDP

335 W

—

TDP (W)

335

—

Suggested PSU

700 W

—

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Navi 21

GM204

Generation

Navi II (RX 6000)

GeForce 900M

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

Triple-slot

MXM Module

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

—

Height

120 mm 4.7 inches

—

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Launch Price

1,099 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Navi

GeForce 800M

Successor

Navi III

GeForce 10 Mobile

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