NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD FirePro D500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +10%

2.46 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

274W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Tahiti

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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