NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Pro V520
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 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 225W)
AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1600MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro V520
+88%
7.373 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Dec 2020
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
2304
104
TMUs
144
56
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.4 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
14.75 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.373 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
460.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
225W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Navi 12
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 12
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
Unknown
398 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.5
