NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 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

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

GeForce GTX 970

VS

FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

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

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

1

1664

Shading Units

80

104

TMUs

8

56

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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

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 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

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