NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD FirePro W9000

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2015
Jun 2012
Generation
GeForce 900
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1176 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1201 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1375 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
264.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1024
2048
TMUs
64
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
38.43 GPixel/s
31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
76.86 GTexel/s
124.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.460 TFLOPS
3.994 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.86 GFLOPS
998.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GM206
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GTX 960 OEM
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
Unknown
274W
Suggested PSU
200 W
600 W
Outputs
No outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
Power Connectors
None
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
6.7
5.1