GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon Vega 8

CORE STATE Raven

VRAM System Shared

CLOCK SPEED 1100 MHz

TDP 25 W

BUS WIDTH System Shared

ARCHITECTURE GCN 5.0

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_metal

10,689

13,595

geekbench_opencl

8,822

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

8,134

31,001

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

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

Vega 8

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

512

1,664 +225.0%

Shaders

512

1,664 +225.0%

TMUs

32

104 +225.0%

ROPs

8

56 +600.0%

Compute Units

8

—

Clocks

Base Clock

300 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

System Shared

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

System Shared

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

—

4,096

Memory Type

System Shared

GDDR5

Memory Bus

System Shared

256 bit

Bandwidth

System Dependent

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

—

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

—

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

35.20 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1,126.4 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

70.40 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

2.253 TFLOPS (2:1)

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Power

TDP

25 W

148 W

TDP (W)

25

148 +492.0%

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Raven

GM204

Generation

Vega IGP (Raven Ridge)

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

4,940 million

5,200 million

Die Size

210 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

23.5M / 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

IGP

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Motherboard 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

GCN 3.0 IGP

GeForce 700

Successor

Vega II IGP

GeForce 10

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