NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI FireGL V8600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and ATI FireGL V8600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 53% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 688 MHz
  • 9.9x more texture fill rate: 109 billion / sec vs 11.01 GTexel / s
  • 5.2x more pipelines: 1664 vs 320
  • 8.9x better floating-point performance: 3,920 gflops vs 440.3 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 148 Watt vs 159 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • 11.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9637 vs 839
  • Around 89% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 769 vs 406
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 September 2014 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed 1050 MHz vs 688 MHz
Texture fill rate 109 billion / sec vs 11.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1664 vs 320
Floating-point performance 3,920 gflops vs 440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 148 Watt vs 159 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 9637 vs 839
PassMark - G2D Mark 769 vs 406

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V8600

  • 248x more memory clock speed: 1736 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Memory clock speed 1736 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V8600

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
9637
839
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
769
406
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ATI FireGL V8600
PassMark - G3D Mark 9637 839
PassMark - G2D Mark 769 406
Geekbench - OpenCL 28441
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 105.107
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1225.96
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.76
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 35.714
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 489.884
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3626

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ATI FireGL V8600

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GM204 R600
Launch date 19 September 2014 14 May 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $329 $1,899
Place in performance rating 365 367
Price now $407.76
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 28.59

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1178 MHz
Core clock speed 1050 MHz 688 MHz
CUDA cores 1664
Floating-point performance 3,920 gflops 440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 98 °C
Pipelines 1664 320
Texture fill rate 109 billion / sec 11.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 148 Watt 159 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 720 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm) 254 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
SLI options 4x
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pins 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB / s 111.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 7.0 GB/s 1736 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR4
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround