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: 9638 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 | 9638 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 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | ATI FireGL V8600 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 9638 | 839 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 769 | 406 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 28476 | |
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 | |
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Essentials |
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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 | 363 | 365 |
Price now | $407.76 | |
Type | Desktop | Workstation |
Value for money (0-100) | 28.59 | |
Technical info |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 10.0 |
OpenGL | 4.4 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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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 |
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3D Vision | ||
Adaptive Vertical Sync | ||
CUDA | ||
GameStream | ||
GameWorks | ||
GeForce Experience | ||
GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
GPU Boost | ||
SLI | ||
Surround |