NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FirePro W7100
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Aug 2014
Generation
GeForce 900
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
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Boost Clock
1178 MHz
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Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
160.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
1792
TMUs
104
112
ROPs
56
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
29.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
103.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
3.297 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
206.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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3.297 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Tonga
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Tonga PRO GL
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
5 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
366 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
150W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-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
3,646
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
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OctaneBench
77
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
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Blender
305
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.