Product Compare

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2019 Sep 2014
Generation Radeon Pro Mac GeForce 900
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1100 MHz 1050 MHz
Boost Clock 1200 MHz 1178 MHz
Memory Clock 1710 MHz 1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 218.9GB/s 224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 36
Shading Units 2304 1664
TMUs 144 104
ROPs 32 56
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache 2 MB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 38.40 GPixel/s 65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 172.8 GTexel/s 122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.530 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.530 TFLOPS 3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 345.6 GFLOPS 122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Ellesmere GM204
GPU Variant Ellesmere XTA(216-0886220) GM204-200-A1
Architecture GCN 4.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 5.2 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 398 mm²
Board Design
TDP 185W 148W
Outputs 2x HDMI 2.0b 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors None 2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 6.4 6.4
CUDA 5.2
Benchmarks
Blender 338 305