GeForce GTX 970 vs FirePro W9100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
Lower TDP (148W vs 275W)
FirePro W9100 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
FirePro W9100
+33%
5238
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+2%
3646
FirePro W9100
3552
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Mar 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
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
1664
Shading Units
2816
104
TMUs
176
56
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.52 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
163.7 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.238 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.619 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
275W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Hawaii
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii GL44
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
438 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