NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 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 345W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1677MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling +250%

13.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

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Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

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

1406 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1677 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/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

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.3 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

429.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

27.48 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.74 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

858.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

345W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 XTX

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

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