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 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

1,501

472

geekbench_metal

73,512

N/A

geekbench_opencl

N/A

18,991

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

18,516

passmark_directx_10

N/A

28

passmark_directx_11

N/A

42

passmark_directx_12

N/A

24

passmark_directx_9

N/A

99

passmark_g2d

N/A

381

passmark_g3d

N/A

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,289

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX Vega 56

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

3,584

1,280 -64.3%

Shaders

3,584

1,280 -64.3%

TMUs

224

80 -64.3%

ROPs

64

48 -25.0%

Compute Units

56

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Clocks

Base Clock

1156 MHz

924 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1038 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

6,144 -25.0%

Memory Type

HBM2

GDDR5

Memory Bus

2048 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

409.6 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

4 MB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

10.54 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

659.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

21.09 TFLOPS (2:1)

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Power

TDP

210 W

—

TDP (W)

210

—

Suggested PSU

550 W

—

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Vega 10

GM204

Generation

Vega (RX Vega)

GeForce 900M

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

MXM Module

Length

280 mm 11 inches

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Height

111 mm 4.4 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

399 USD

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Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Polaris

GeForce 800M

Successor

Navi

GeForce 10 Mobile

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