NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI Radeon X800 GTO
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 128MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO 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 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X800 GTO 's Advantages
Lower TDP (49W vs 148W)
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Dec 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon R400 PCIe
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
350 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
-
104
TMUs
12
56
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
49W
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
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
R423
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
R423 GTO
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
R400
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
130 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.16 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
289 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
9.0b (9_2)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
-
