NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs ATI FireMV 2260 PCIe x1

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

ATI FireMV 2260 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2260 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2008 additional rendering cores

ATI FireMV 2260 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +12352%

4.981 TFLOPS

FireMV 2260 PCIe x1

0.04 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

FireMV 2260 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

FireMV Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

2048

Shading Units

40

128

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

15W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

RV620

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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