NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 320MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 320 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 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 320GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 63.36GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 's Advantages

Lower TDP (143W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +1619%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

0.228 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Feb 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 8

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

792 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

320MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

63.36GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

1664

Shading Units

96

104

TMUs

24

56

ROPs

20

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

80 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.26 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.62 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

228.1 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

148W

TDP

143W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G80

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

G80-100-K0-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.0

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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