ATI Radeon X1700 SE vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

ATI Radeon X1700 SE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1700 SE

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Sep 2014

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

1664

8

TMUs

104

8

ROPs

56

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

4.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV560

GPU Name

GM204

RV560 SE

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

R500

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

3.0

Shader Model

6.4

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