NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages
Lower TDP (108W vs 148W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2005
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 7 PCIe
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
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.20GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
1664
24
TMUs
104
16
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
-
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
12.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
108W
TDP
148W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G70
GPU Name
GM204
GF-7800-GTX-512-A2
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Curie
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.302 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
333 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
3.0
Shader Model
6.4
