GeForce GTX 970 vs FirePro W7100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)
FirePro W7100 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+18%
3920
FirePro W7100
3297
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+47%
3646
FirePro W7100
2471
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
+42%
1683
FirePro W7100
1185
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Aug 2014
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
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
1664
Shading Units
1792
104
TMUs
112
56
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.44 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
103.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.297 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.297 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
206.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Tonga
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Tonga PRO GL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
5 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
366 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
6.3