GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

CORE STATE Vega 10

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1471 MHz

TDP 210 W

BUS WIDTH 2048 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 5.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

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

1,501

369

geekbench_metal

73,512

13,595

geekbench_opencl

N/A

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

31,001

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 Vega 56

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

3,584

1,664 -53.6%

Shaders

3,584

1,664 -53.6%

TMUs

224

104 -53.6%

ROPs

64

56 -12.5%

Compute Units

56

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Clocks

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

HBM2

GDDR5

Memory Bus

2048 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

409.6 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

4 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

10.54 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

659.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

21.09 TFLOPS (2:1)

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Power

TDP

210 W

148 W

TDP (W)

210

148 -29.5%

Suggested PSU

550 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Vega 10

GM204

Generation

Vega (RX Vega)

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

12,500 million

5,200 million

Die Size

495 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

25.3M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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

280 mm 11 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x 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

399 USD

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Polaris

GeForce 700

Successor

Navi

GeForce 10

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