NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
-
104
TMUs
4
56
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
NV10
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
220 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
-
