AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
May 2020
Generation
Solar System
Tesla Ampere
Type
Mobile
AI GPU
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1095 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1410 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
40GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
256bit
5120bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
1555GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
6912
TMUs
80
432
ROPs
32
160
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
40 MB
SM Count
-
108
Tensor Cores
-
432
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
225.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
609.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
19.49 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
9.746 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
77.97 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
GA100
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
-
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
400W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Suggested PSU
-
800 W
Power Connectors
-
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
N/A
CUDA
-
8.0
📊 Benchmark
Blender
-
2,186