NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Nov 2018
Generation
GeForce 900M
Radeon Pro Mac
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
924 MHz
815 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1190 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
192bit
1024bit
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
307.2GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1280
1024
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
1024 KB
Compute Units
—
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
38.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
76.16 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
2.437 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
152.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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4.874 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Vega 12
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Vega 12 XLA
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
Unknown
Die Size
398 mm²
Unknown
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
75W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.