3D Rage IIC PCI vs GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Sep 2014
Rage 2
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
83 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
4GB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Shading Units
1664
1
TMUs
104
1
ROPs
56
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
-
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/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 VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
GM204
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Rage 2
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
12 (12_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
