GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon VII

CORE STATE Vega 20

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1750 MHz

TDP 295 W

BUS WIDTH 4096 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 5.1

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

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

2,304

369

geekbench_metal

77,265

13,595

geekbench_opencl

91,947

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

85,909

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

VII

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

3,840

1,664 -56.7%

Shaders

3,840

1,664 -56.7%

TMUs

240

104 -56.7%

ROPs

64

56 -12.5%

Compute Units

60

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Clocks

Base Clock

1400 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

16 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

16,384

4,096 -75.0%

Memory Type

HBM2

GDDR5

Memory Bus

4096 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

1.02 TB/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

112.0 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

13.44 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

3.360 TFLOPS (1:4)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

26.88 TFLOPS (2:1)

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Power

TDP

295 W

148 W

TDP (W)

295

148 -49.8%

Suggested PSU

600 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 5.1

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Vega 20

GM204

Generation

Vega II (Radeon VII)

GeForce 900

Process Size

7 nm

28 nm

Transistors

13,230 million

5,200 million

Die Size

331 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

40.0M / 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

125 mm 4.9 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

699 USD

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Vega

GeForce 700

Successor

Navi

GeForce 10

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