NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 DVI 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 7 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro W5000 DVI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+209%
3.92 TFLOPS
FirePro W5000 DVI
1.267 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Feb 2013
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
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
768
104
TMUs
48
56
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1267 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
79.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Pitcairn LE GL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
212 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
