NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 640MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112 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 10 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 640GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1552 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+1357%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112
0.269 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 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
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
640MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
14
1664
Shading Units
112
104
TMUs
28
56
ROPs
20
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
80 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 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
