AMD Radeon Pro W6900X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X 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 W6900X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (2150MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

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

3456 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6900X +461%

22.02 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon Pro W6900X +619%

2193

GeForce GTX 970

305

Radeon Pro W6900X

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

Sep 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2150 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

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

1664

320

TMUs

104

128

ROPs

56

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

275.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

688.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

44.03 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

22.02 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

1376 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

148W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

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

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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