NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD FirePro W9100

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD FirePro W9100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

Lower TDP (165W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100 +5%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

FirePro W9100

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2014

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

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

2048

Shading Units

2816

128

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Hawaii

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL44

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

438 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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