NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 210W)
AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1471MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Radeon RX Vega 56
+168%
10.54 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
Radeon RX Vega 56
+86%
6783
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Radeon RX Vega 56
+96%
3310
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
Radeon RX Vega 56
+100%
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
Radeon RX Vega 56
+90%
57
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
Radeon RX Vega 56
+117%
87
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
Radeon RX Vega 56
+9%
46
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
Radeon RX Vega 56
+106%
91
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
Radeon RX Vega 56
+12%
110
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Aug 2017
GeForce 900
Generation
Vega
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1156 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1471 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
409.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
56
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
3584
104
TMUs
224
56
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
94.14 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
329.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
21.09 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.54 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
659.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
210W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 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
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Vega 10
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
