GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon Pro SSG
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro SSG to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 260W)
Radeon Pro SSG 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1500MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
Radeon Pro SSG
+213%
12290
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Aug 2017
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
483.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
1664
Shading Units
4096
104
TMUs
256
56
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
96.00 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
768.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
260W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Vega 10
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XT GL
(215-0894124)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
