NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Pro V420

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon Pro V420

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 32GB VRAM AMD Radeon Pro V420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Pro V420 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1700MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (819.2GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon Pro V420 +255%

13.93 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon Pro V420

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

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

800 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

819.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

-

1664

Shading Units

4096

104

TMUs

256

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

435.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.85 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.93 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.963 TFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 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

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