NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 6GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1178MHz vs 950MHz)
Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)
AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
2.413 TFLOPS
FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB
+41%
3.405 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
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
825 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
950 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
1792
64
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
106.4 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.405 TFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
851.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
375W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
Orthrus
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
352 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
