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Radeon RX Vega 64 and GeForce GTX 970 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX Vega 64 vs GeForce GTX 970

Radeon RX Vega 64
14789
GeForce GTX 970
9932

Radeon RX Vega 64

GeForce GTX 970


Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
Vega
GM204

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
August 2017
September 2014

Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)
-
500 Watt

Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 6-pins

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
1546 MHz
1178 MHz

Core clock speed
1630 MHz
1050 MHz

CUDA cores
-
1664

Floating-point performance
13,353 gflops
3,920 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
12,500 million
5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
1664

Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
145 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C

Texture fill rate
395.8
109 billion/sec

Memory type
HBM2
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
2048 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
945 MHz
7.0 GB/s

Memory bandwidth
483.8 GB/s
224 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Multi monitor support
-
4 displays

HDMI
+
+

HDCP
-
+

Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536

G-SYNC support
-
+

Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)

CUDA
-
+

OpenCL
2.0
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.4

Shader Model
6.4
6.4

Vulkan
1.1.125
1.1.126

GameStream
-
+

GameWorks
-
+

GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+

GPU Boost
-
2.0