ATI FirePro V7900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2011
Jan 2015
Generation
FirePro
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1753 MHz
Base Clock
—
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1178 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1280
1024
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.856 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GM206
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO GL
GM206-300-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
120W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
CUDA
—
5.2
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
2,300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
35
GTA 5 1080p
—
70
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.