NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 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 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (148W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +21%

3.92 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

FirePro W8000

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

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

1664

Shading Units

1792

104

TMUs

112

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

28.80 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

225W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

352 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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