GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon Pro V420 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon Pro V420
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)
GPU code name
GM204
Vega 20
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
September 2014
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Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
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Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1700 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
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CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
13,230 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
4096
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
300 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
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Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
435.2
Memory type
GDDR5
HBM2
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
32 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
4096 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1600 MBps
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
819.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
4 displays
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HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
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