NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FirePro W7000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD FirePro W7000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7000 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +61%

3.92 TFLOPS

FirePro W7000

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

FirePro W7000

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2012

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

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

1664

Shading Units

1280

104

TMUs

80

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

30.40 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

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 Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

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

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