GeForce GTX 970 vs FireGL V5600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
Released 7 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)
1544 additional rendering cores
FireGL V5600 Advantages
Lower TDP (89W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+1941%
3920
FireGL V5600
192
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Aug 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
1100 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
35.20GB/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
3.200 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.400 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
89W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
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
