Radeon RX Vega 56 vs GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX Vega 56 Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1471MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX Vega 56
+168%
10540
GeForce GTX 970
3920
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX Vega 56
+86%
6783
GeForce GTX 970
3646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX Vega 56
+96%
3310
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX Vega 56
+100%
30
GeForce GTX 970
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX Vega 56
+90%
57
GeForce GTX 970
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX Vega 56
+117%
87
GeForce GTX 970
40
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX Vega 56
+9%
46
GeForce GTX 970
42
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX Vega 56
+106%
91
GeForce GTX 970
44
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX Vega 56
+12%
110
GeForce GTX 970
98
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Sep 2014
Vega
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1156 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1471 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5
2048bit
Memory Bus
256bit
409.6GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
-
3584
Shading Units
1664
224
TMUs
104
64
ROPs
56
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
94.14 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
21.09 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.54 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
659.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
210W
TDP
148W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
GM204
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
GCN 5.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4