AMD Radeon Pro W6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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AMD Radeon Pro W6800 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800 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 W6800 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 97% (2320MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6800 +354%

17.82 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon Pro W6800 +555%

1980

GeForce GTX 970

302

Radeon Pro W6800

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jun 2021

Release Date

Sep 2014

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2075 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2320 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1664

240

TMUs

104

96

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

222.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

556.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

35.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

17.82 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

148W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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