GeForce GTX 970 vs FirePro V3800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM FirePro V3800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
1264 additional rendering cores
FirePro V3800 's Advantages
Lower TDP (43W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+653%
3920
FirePro V3800
520
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Apr 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
1664
Shading Units
400
104
TMUs
20
56
ROPs
8
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.200 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.00 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
520.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
43W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort 1.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Redwood
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Redwood PRO GL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.627 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
104 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
