GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon Pro VII
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro VII to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)
Radeon Pro VII 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1700MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
Radeon Pro VII
+233%
13060
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Radeon Pro VII
+146%
8984
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Radeon Pro VII
+159%
4369
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
Radeon Pro VII
+996%
3343
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 2020
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon Pro Vega
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1400 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
1020GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
60
1664
Shading Units
3840
104
TMUs
240
56
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
108.8 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
408.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.11 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.06 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.528 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Vega 20
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Vega 20 GLXT WS
(215-0914026)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 5.1
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
331 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.7