NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI FirePro V4900
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V4900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1184 additional rendering cores
ATI FirePro V4900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+410%
3.92 TFLOPS
FirePro V4900
0.768 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Nov 2011
GeForce 900
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
480
104
TMUs
24
56
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.400 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
768.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Turks
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Turks XT GL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.716 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
118 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
