NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
1584 additional rendering cores
ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 's Advantages
Lower TDP (15W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+3983%
3.92 TFLOPS
FirePro 2270 PCIe x1
0.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 900
Generation
FirePro Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x1
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
1
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
80
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 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)
96.00 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
15W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DMS-59
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Cedar
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Cedar WS
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
59 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
