NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FirePro S7000 Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Sep 2014

Aug 2012

Generation

GeForce 900

FirePro

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

-

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

4GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256bit

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

153.6GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units

1664

1280

TMUs

104

80

ROPs

56

32

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

2 MB

512 KB

Compute Units

-

20

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

30.40 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

2.432 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

GM204

Pitcairn

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Pitcairn XT GL(215-0828073)

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GCN 1.0

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

Transistors

5.2 billion

2.8 billion

Die Size

398 mm²

212 mm²

Board Design

TDP

148W

150W

Suggested PSU

300 W

450 W

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_1)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

1.2

CUDA

5.2

-

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy

3,646

-

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

1,683

-

OctaneBench

77

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

15

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

30

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

40

-

Blender

305

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