NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI FirePro V8800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 208W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+48%
3.92 TFLOPS
FirePro V8800
2.64 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Apr 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
FirePro
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
1150 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
147.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
1600
104
TMUs
80
56
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
66.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.640 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
528.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
208W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.1
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Cypress
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT GL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
334 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
