GeForce GTX 970 vs FirePro S9300 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
Lower TDP (148W vs 300W)
FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
FirePro S9300 X2
+103%
7987
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Mar 2016
GeForce 900
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
1664
Shading Units
4096
104
TMUs
256
56
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
62.40 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
249.6 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.987 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
499.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Capsaicin
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Capsaicin XT
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.0
