NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 52.48GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 's Advantages
Lower TDP (135W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+842%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GTS 512
0.416 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Dec 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 8
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
820 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
52.48GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
1664
Shading Units
128
104
TMUs
64
56
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
41.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
416.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
135W
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
G92
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
G92-400-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
