NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 129% (2700MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU +111%

8.294 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2023

GeForce 900

Generation

Console GPU(ASUS)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

-

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

800 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2700 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

LPDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

1664

Shading Units

768

104

TMUs

48

56

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

12

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

86.40 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

129.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.59 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.294 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

518.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

-

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

Outputs

1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Phoenix

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

25.39 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

178 mm²

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

6.8

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