NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FirePro V5900
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro V5900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+538%
3.92 TFLOPS
FirePro V5900
0.614 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 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
500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
512
104
TMUs
32
56
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.20 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
614.4 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.6 GFLOPS
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 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Cayman
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Cayman LE WS
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
389 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
