NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI FireGL V7700
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM FireGL V7700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+688%
3.92 TFLOPS
FireGL V7700
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1126 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
72.06GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
320
104
TMUs
16
56
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
RV670
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
RV670 GL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
