AMD Radeon Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Cezanne GM204
Architecture GCN 5.1 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 7 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 9,800 million 5,200 million
Die size 156 mm² 398 mm²
GPU variant GM204-200-A1

Integrated Graphics

Release date Apr 13th, 2021
Generation Cezanne (Vega)
Predecessor Renoir
Production Active
Interface IGP

Clocks

Base clock 300 MHz 1050 MHz
Boost clock 1900 MHz 1178 MHz
Memory clock System Shared 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size System Shared 4 GB
Memory type System Shared GDDR5
Memory bus width System Shared 256 bit
Bandwidth System Dependent 224.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 448 1664
TMUs 28 104
ROPs 8 56
Compute units 7
SMM count 13
Cache L1 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 2 MB

Performance

Pixel rate 15.20 GPixel/s 65.97 GPixel/s
Texture rate 53.20 GTexel/s 122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 3.405 TFLOPS (2:1)
FP32 (float) performance 1.702 TFLOPS 3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 106.4 GFLOPS (1:16) 122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width IGP Dual-slot
TDP 45 W 148 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches
Suggested PSU 300 W
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

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 19th, 2014
Generation GeForce 900
Production End-of-life
Launch price 329 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 111 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 700
Successor GeForce 10

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