NVIDIA Tesla M4 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2015
Jan 2013
Generation
Tesla
Sea Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
872 MHz
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Boost Clock
1072 MHz
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Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
2048
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
34.30 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.61 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.195 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
68.61 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
Tahiti
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
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Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Board Design
TDP
50W
250W
Suggested PSU
250 W
600 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
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1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.