NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI FirePro V9800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

ATI FirePro V9800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800 +12%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

FirePro V9800

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Sep 2010

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

1150 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

1024

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Cypress

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

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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