NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD FirePro W5000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +90%

2.413 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

1024

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

212 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

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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