AMD FirePro RG220A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD FirePro RG220A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220A and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro RG220A

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +4800%

3.92 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220A

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Sep 2014

FirePro Remote

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

1

Compute Units

-

80

Shading Units

1664

8

TMUs

104

4

ROPs

56

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

4.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

148W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

M93

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.242 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

73 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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