ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO AGP 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 X800 GTO AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (49W vs 148W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 31.36GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Sep 2014
Radeon R400 AGP
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
490 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
31.36GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
1664
12
TMUs
104
12
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
-
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
49W
TDP
148W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x Molex
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
R420
GPU Name
GM204
R420 GTO
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
R400
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.16 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
281 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0b (9_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
