NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 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 11 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (41W vs 148W)

Score

GeForce GTX 970

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Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

390 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.48GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

-

104

TMUs

4

56

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

RV530

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

RV530 PRO (215CADAKA24FG)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

41W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

Floppy

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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