NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI325X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 288GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI325X 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 1000W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI325X 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 78% (2100MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (288GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (10.3TB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
17792 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI325X
+1984%
81.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Oct 2024
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
2100 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2525 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
288GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM3e
256bit
Memory Bus
8192bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
10.3TB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
304
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
19456
104
TMUs
1216
56
ROPs
0
-
Tensor Cores
1216
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
L3 Cache
256 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2553.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
653.7 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
81.72 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
81.72 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
1000W
300 W
Suggested PSU
1400 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Aqua Vanjaram
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
CDNA 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
153 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
1017 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
N/A
