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