ATI FirePro V7900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

ATI FirePro V7900

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V7900

1.856 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +111%

3.92 TFLOPS

FirePro V7900

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Sep 2014

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1664

80

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

1.856 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GM204

Cayman PRO GL

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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