AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Max Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
May 2019
Generation
Solar System
Quadro Mobile
Type
Mobile
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
780 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1380 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1625 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
416.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
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Shading Units
1280
2560
TMUs
80
160
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
—
40
Tensor Cores
—
320
RT Cores
—
40
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
88.32 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
220.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
7.066 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
220.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
14.13 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
TU104
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
13.6 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
545 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
80W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
—
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
CUDA
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7.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.