NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT 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 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 148W)

Score

GeForce GTX 970

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Radeon X1950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Feb 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

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

-

104

TMUs

12

56

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

RV570

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

57W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x Molex

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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