Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Sep 2014 | Aug 2017 |
| Generation | GeForce 900 | Vega |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1050 MHz | 1247 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1178 MHz | 1546 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz | 945 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 8GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | HBM2 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 2048bit |
| Bandwidth | 224.4GB/s | 483.8GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 1664 | 4096 |
| TMUs | 104 | 256 |
| ROPs | 56 | 64 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SMM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | 4 MB |
| Compute Units | 64 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 65.97 GPixel/s | 98.94 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 122.5 GTexel/s | 395.8 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.920 TFLOPS | 12.66 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 122.5 GFLOPS | 791.6 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 25.33 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM204 | Vega 10 |
| GPU Variant | GM204-200-A1 | Vega 10 XT(215-0894200) |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 5.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | GlobalFoundries |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 14 nm |
| Transistors | 5.2 billion | 12.5 billion |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | 495 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 148W | 295W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 2x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.4 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| 3DMark Time Spy | 3646 | 7373 |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 1683 | 3619 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p | 15 | 31 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p | 30 | 62 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p | 40 | 92 |
| Blender | 305 | 660 |