NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD FirePro S9300 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (148W vs 300W)

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2 +103%

7.987 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

FirePro S9300 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

1664

Shading Units

4096

104

TMUs

256

56

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

499.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Capsaicin

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.0

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