NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 DVI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +293%

4.981 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 DVI

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

FirePro W5000 DVI

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Feb 2013

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

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

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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