NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD FirePro W9100
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2015
Mar 2014
Generation
GeForce 900
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
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Boost Clock
1178 MHz
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Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
512bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
2816
TMUs
64
176
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
1024 KB
Compute Units
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44
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
59.52 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
163.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
5.238 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
2.619 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
Hawaii
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Hawaii GL44
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
275W
Suggested PSU
300 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x S-Video
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,300
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,025
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
10
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
25
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
35
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GTA 5 1080p
70
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.