NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X 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 W6900X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (2150MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

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

3456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X +461%

22.02 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

302

Radeon Pro W6900X +561%

1998

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon Pro W6900X

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Aug 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2150 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

80

1664

Shading Units

5120

104

TMUs

320

56

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

275.2 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

688.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

44.03 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.02 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1376 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 21

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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