NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon Pro W5500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1855MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (125W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500 +33%

5.224 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

302

Radeon Pro W5500 +63%

495

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon Pro W5500

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Feb 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1744 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1855 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

1664

Shading Units

1408

104

TMUs

88

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.36 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.45 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.224 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

326.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 14

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

125W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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