NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FirePro W5000

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

896 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +209%

3.92 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 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

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

1664

Shading Units

768

104

TMUs

48

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GM204-200-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

Board Design

148W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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