NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI FirePro V7900

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ATI FirePro V7900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 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 160.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +111%

3.92 TFLOPS

FirePro V7900

1.856 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

FirePro V7900

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

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

1664

Shading Units

1280

104

TMUs

80

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.856 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Cayman

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO GL

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

Board Design

148W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

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