AMD Radeon Pro Vega II vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega II NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega II and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1720MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (825.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 475W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega II +259%

14.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon Pro Vega II +172%

824

GeForce GTX 970

302

Radeon Pro Vega II

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jun 2019

Release Date

Sep 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

Apple MPX

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1574 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1720 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

806 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

825.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

1664

256

TMUs

104

64

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

440.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

28.18 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

7.045 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

GM204

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

GCN 5.1

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

475W

TDP

148W

850 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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