GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce 8800 Ultra
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 171W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+912%
3920
GeForce 8800 Ultra
387
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1080 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
768MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
103.7GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
16
1664
Shading Units
128
104
TMUs
32
56
ROPs
24
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
96 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.69 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.17 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
387.1 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
171W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
G80
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
G80-450-A3
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
90 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.681 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
484 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1 (1.0)
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.0
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
