GeForce GTX 970 vs Xe DG1 SDV
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Xe DG1 SDV to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Xe DG1 SDV 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1500MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+70%
3920
Xe DG1 SDV
2304
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
Xe Graphics
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2133 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
68.26GB/s
Render Config
1664
Shading Units
768
104
TMUs
48
56
ROPs
24
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
L3 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
36.00 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.608 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
576.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI
3x DisplayPort
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
DG1
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Generation 12.1
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
28 nm
Process Size
10 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
Unknown
398 mm²
Die Size
95 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
