NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI FireGL V8600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 159W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +790%

3.92 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

May 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

868 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/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

11.01 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

148W

TDP

159W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

R600

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

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

4.0

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