NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon Pro Duo

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (148W vs 350W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo +108%

8.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon Pro Duo

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/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

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Capsaicin

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.0

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