NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Aug 2017
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
1138 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
786 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
192bit
2048bit
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
402.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1280
3584
TMUs
80
224
ROPs
48
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
4 MB
Compute Units
—
56
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
80.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
8.960 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
17.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Vega 10
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
12.5 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
495 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
210W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
None
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)
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.