NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI FireGL V3600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

ATI FireGL V3600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1544 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (73W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +2622%

3.92 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600

0.144 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

FireGL

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

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

-

1664

Shading Units

120

104

TMUs

8

56

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

148W

TDP

73W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

RV630

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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