NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1250MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +237%

8.96 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970M

208

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +155%

531

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

1138 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

-

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

48

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

210W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Vega 10

N16E-GT-A2

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

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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