NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA 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 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +912%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1080 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

103.7GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

1664

32

TMUs

104

24

ROPs

56

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

96 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

39.17 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

171W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G80

GPU Name

GM204

G80-450-A3

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.681 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

484 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1 (1.0)

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.0

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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