NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FirePro S10000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1178MHz vs 950MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (148W vs 375W)
AMD FirePro S10000 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+15%
3.92 TFLOPS
FirePro S10000
3.405 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+81%
3646
FirePro S10000
2010
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
+62%
1683
FirePro S10000
1038
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 2012
GeForce 900
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
825 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
950 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
1792
104
TMUs
112
56
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
106.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.405 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
851.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
375W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Zaphod
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
398 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
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
