GeForce GTX 970 vs FirePro RG220
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1584 additional rendering cores
FirePro RG220 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+4800%
3920
FirePro RG220
80
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
FirePro RG
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
1
1664
Shading Units
80
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
35W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DMS-59
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
M93
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.242 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
73 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
