AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1178MHz vs 950MHz)

Lower TDP (148W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +15%

3.92 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Sep 2014

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

950 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1664

112

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

148W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GM204

Orthrus

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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