NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon VII

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon VII

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 295W)

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1750MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon VII +242%

13.44 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Radeon VII +157%

9319

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

305

Radeon VII +153%

772

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

Radeon VII +193%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

Radeon VII +173%

82

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

Radeon VII +185%

114

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

Radeon VII +57%

66

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

Radeon VII +40%

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon VII +38%

136

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon VII

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

Vega II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1400 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

-

1664

Shading Units

3840

104

TMUs

240

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

112.0 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.88 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.44 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.360 TFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

295W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 20

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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