Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD FirePro W9000

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Aug 2015 Jun 2012
Generation GeForce 900 FirePro
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1024 MHz
Boost Clock 1188 MHz
Memory Clock 1653 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 6GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 384bit
Bandwidth 105.8GB/s 264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 768 2048
TMUs 48 128
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 768 KB
Compute Units 32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 38.02 GPixel/s 31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 57.02 GTexel/s 124.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.825 TFLOPS 3.994 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 57.02 GFLOPS 998.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM206 Tahiti
GPU Variant GM206-250-A1 Tahiti XT GL
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.94 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 228 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 90W 274W
Suggested PSU 250 W 600 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a 6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
CUDA 5.2
Shader Model 6.4 5.1