NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD FirePro W7000

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 AMD FirePro W7000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7000 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 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

AMD FirePro W7000 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

FirePro W7000

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

FirePro W7000

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jun 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

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

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

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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