AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

AMD FirePro W9000

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000 +65%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2015

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

274W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GM206

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

228 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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