NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD FirePro V5900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD FirePro V5900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro V5900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +711%

4.981 TFLOPS

FirePro V5900

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

FirePro V5900

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

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Cayman

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman LE WS

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

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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