GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon X1700 FSC
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1700 FSC to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 22.24GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1700 FSC 's Advantages
Lower TDP (44W vs 148W)
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
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
695 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
22.24GB/s
Render Config
1664
Shading Units
-
104
TMUs
4
56
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.348 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.348 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
44W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
RV535
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
RV535 FSC
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
131 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
3.0
