GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

CORE STATE Polaris 22

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1011 MHz

TDP 65 W

BUS WIDTH 1024 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

geekbench_opencl

19,549

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

22,757

31,001

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

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 Vega M GL

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

1,664 +30.0%

Shaders

1,280

1,664 +30.0%

TMUs

80

104 +30.0%

ROPs

32

56 +75.0%

Compute Units

20

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Clocks

Base Clock

931 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1011 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

HBM2

GDDR5

Memory Bus

1024 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

179.2 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

32.35 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

80.88 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.588 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

161.8 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

2.588 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

65 W

148 W

TDP (W)

65

148 +127.7%

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

—

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Polaris 22

GM204

Generation

Vega (Vega M)

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,000 million

5,200 million

Die Size

208 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.0M / 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

IGP

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

IGP

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

—

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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