NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD FirePro W4300

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD FirePro W4300

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W4300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock1216MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4300 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +248%

4.981 TFLOPS

FirePro W4300

1.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

FirePro W4300

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Dec 2015

GeForce 900

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Bonaire

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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