Intel Xe DG1 SDV vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Xe DG1 SDV and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Xe DG1 SDV 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1500MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Xe DG1 SDV

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +70%

3.92 TFLOPS

Xe DG1 SDV

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2014

Xe Graphics

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1500 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2133 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

LPDDR4X

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

68.26GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

1664

48

TMUs

104

24

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

36.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

4.608 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

576.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG1

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Generation 12.1

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

10 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

95 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort

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

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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