NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1600MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB 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 Vega Frontier Edition +234%

13.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +95%

7078

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

302

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +145%

742

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

1664

Shading Units

4096

104

TMUs

256

56

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Vega 10

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

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

Board Design

148W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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