NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce2 Ultra

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Aug 2000

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 2

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 4x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

230 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

64MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

7.360GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

1664

8

TMUs

104

4

ROPs

56

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

148W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV15

GPU Name

GM204

GeForce2 Ultra

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Celsius

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

180 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.025 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

88 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

7.0

DirectX

12 (12_1)

1.5

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

-

Shader Model

6.4

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