AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1600MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +234%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +95%

7078

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Blender

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +145%

742

GeForce GTX 970

302

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/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

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GM204

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

148W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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