NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD FirePro V5900

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 AMD FirePro V5900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro V5900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +292%

2.413 TFLOPS

FirePro V5900

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

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FirePro V5900

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

1024

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Cayman

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman LE WS

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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