AMD Radeon Pro SSG vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Vega 10 GM204
GPU variant Vega 10 XT GL (215-0894124) GM204-400-A1
Architecture GCN 5.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Manufacturing process 14 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 12,500 million 5,200 million
Die size 495 mm² 398 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 8th, 2017 Sep 19th, 2014
Generation Radeon Pro GeForce 900
Production Active End-of-life
Launch price 6,999 USD 549 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews — 146 in our database
Predecessor — GeForce 700
Successor — GeForce 10

Clocks

Base clock 1440 MHz 1127 MHz
Boost clock 1500 MHz 1216 MHz
Memory clock 945 MHz 1890 Mbps effective 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 16 GB 4 GB
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5
Memory bus width 2048 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 483.8 GB/s 224.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 4096 2048
TMUs 256 128
ROPs 64 64
Compute units 64 —
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 4 MB 2 MB
SMM count — 16

Performance

Pixel rate 96.00 GPixel/s 77.82 GPixel/s
Texture rate 384.0 GTexel/s 155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 24.58 TFLOPS (2:1) —
FP32 (float) performance 12.29 TFLOPS 4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 768.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches 111 mm 4.4 inches
TDP 260 W 165 W
Suggested PSU 600 W 450 W
Outputs 6x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Height — 40 mm 1.6 inches
Board number — PG401

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader model 6.4 6.4
CUDA — 5.2

Other Features

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