NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +46%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

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

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

1664

Shading Units

2304

104

TMUs

144

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

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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