AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Feb 2019
Sep 2014
Generation
Vega II
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1400 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1750 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
4GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR5
Memory Bus
4096bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1020GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
60
-
Shading Units
3840
1664
TMUs
240
104
ROPs
64
56
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
112.0 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
420.0 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
26.88 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
13.44 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.360 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Vega 20
GM204
GPU Variant
Vega 20 XT
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
GCN 5.1
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
13.23 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
331 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
295W
148W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
Shader Model
6.7
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
8,923
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
4,374
1,683
Blender
772
305
OctaneBench
-
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
40