NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16MB VRAM Voodoo4 2 4200 PCI 16 MB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 2.656GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (15W vs 148W)
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
Voodoo4-2
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
166 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
2.656GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
-
104
TMUs
2
56
ROPs
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
332.0 MPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
332.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
15W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
VSA-101
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Daytona
(355-0025-221)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Voodoo Scalable
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
180 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.014 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
112 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
6.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.1
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
-
