GeForce GTX 970 vs FireGL V3600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
1544 additional rendering cores
FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (73W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+2622%
3920
FireGL V3600
144
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jun 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
1664
Shading Units
120
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
73W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
RV630
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
RV630 GL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
