NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD FirePro S4000X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M AMD FirePro S4000X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 2GB VRAM FirePro S4000X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1038MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +167%

2.657 TFLOPS

FirePro S4000X

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

FirePro S4000X

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

775 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Venus

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Venus XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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