GeForce GTX 970 vs FirePro V9800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
Released 4 years late
Boost Clock1178MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+44%
3920
FirePro V9800
2720
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Sep 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
1150 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
147.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
1664
Shading Units
1600
104
TMUs
80
56
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Cypress
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT GL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
334 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